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* The ''Literature/SPQRSeries'' by John Maddox Roberts follows the sleuthing and political career of Senator Decius Caecilius Metellus during the final years of the TheRomanRepublic.

* ''VideoGame/TheInvisibleHours'', an Environmental Narrative Game set in a GenteelInterbellumSetting.

* ''VideoGame/TheInvisibleHours'', an Environmental Narrative Game set in a GenteelInterbellumSetting.

* The ''Literature/ErastFandorin'' cycle of novels, set in Imperial Russia, and sometimes Imperial Japan.

* The ''Literature/Shardlake'' series by C J Sansom has the lawyer Matthew Shardlake solve mysteries in the Tudor court of Henry VIII.

* ''Series/TheBletchleyCircle'': four former WW2 codebreakers solve crimes in 1952 London.

* The ''Literature/SisterFidelma'' series by Peter Tremayne, set in 7th century Ireland, about the adventures of a crime-fighting lawyer nun.

* The ''Literature/SisterFidelma'' mysteries by Peter Tremayne, where the sleuthing protagonist is a lawyer--nun in 7th century Ireland.

* The Literature/SageAdair Historical Mysteries follow an undercover labor activist in th Pacific Northwest at the turn of the 20th century.
* ''Literature/SanoIchiro'' revolves around the trials of a samurai of the [[JidaiGeki Edo period]] who serves as the [[ExoticDetective shogun's personal investigator]]. It plays fast and loose with many {{Historical Domain Character}}s of Japanese history.

* The Justin de Quincy mysteries, by Sharon Kay Penman, are set during the rule of RichardTheLionheart (though mostly while he is away crusading, and Eleanor of Aquitaine and his brother John are jockeying for power in England).

* ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' and it's sequel ''Film/TheTwoJakes'' take place in the 30s near LA.

* ''Series/TheBletchleyCircle': four former WW2 codebreakers solve crimes in 1952 London.

* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'' started a TV adaptation of the ''Literature/PhryneFisher'' novels by Kerry Greenwood, although some later episodes have plots not based on the novels.

* ''Literature/DeathComesAsTheEnd'', by Agatha Christie, is set in Egypt circa 2000 BC.

* ''Literature/MurderAtColefaxManor'' is set in the rarely-used county of Cornwall in late 1800s VictorianBritain.

* David Liss's ''Literature/AConspiracyOfPaper'', is the first of a series of novels about Benjamin Weaver, an ex-boxer and thief-taker living in the London of the early 1720s. The mysteries revolve around historical subjects such as the South Sea Bubble and the General Election of 1722.

* Andrew Pepper's ''Literature/APykeMystery'' [[http://www.goodreads.com/series/44584-a-pyke-mystery series]] features the titular character as a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_Street_Runners Bow Street Runner]] turned private investigator, who works in the 1840s, at the time when the new railways are opening up Britain as never before.

* The ''Literature/AristotleDetective'' series by Margaret Doody has the historic philosopher Creator/Aristotle help his fictional student Stephanous solve mysteries and navigate Athenian politics during the age of UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat.

* The ''Literature/PhryneFisher'' novels are set in and around Melbourne (Australia) in the 1920s.