SYKM


Real People
Susan Wittig Albert
  • Beatrix Potter: author and illustrator in the Lake District in 1900s England

Bruce Alexander
  • Sir John Fielding: blind magistrate and founder of the first police force in 1700s London, England

Lawrence Alexander
  • Theodore Roosevelt: Police Commissioner in 1890s New York City

Steve Allen
  • Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows: celebrity crime-solvers in Los Angeles, California

Stephanie Barron (Francine Mathews)
  • Jane Austen: famous author in England

Bernard Bastable (Robert Barnard)
  • Amadeus Mozart: 18th century musician in London, England

George Baxt
  • Celebrity Murder series

Albert Bell
  • Pliny the Younger: wealthy young aristocrat in 1st century Rome

Gyles Brandreth
  • Oscar Wilde: poet, wit, and playwright, friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Sherard, great-grandson of Wordsworth, investigate murders in Victorian England, Scotland, and France
Lillian De La Torre
  • Dr. Sam. Johnson: real-life 18th-century lexicographer and sage, in London, England

Mary Devlin
  • Geoffrey Chaucer: poet and detective in the late 1300s, in England

Margaret Doody
  • Aristotle, the philosopher, and Stephanos, a former student, in 330s BCE Athens under the rule of Alexander

Mark Frost
  • Arthur Conan Doyle: doctor, author, and student of the paranormal, in late 19th century London, England

Ron Goulart
  • Groucho Marx: movie star in Hollywood, California

Robert Lee Hall
  • Benjamin Franklin: 18th-century American inventor, in London, England

Peter J. Heck
  • Mark Twain: 19th century American author, and Wentworth Cabot, his secretary, in the USA

Jane Jakeman
  • Claude Monet: French impressionist painter, in early 1900s London, England, and Venice, Italy
Stuart M. Kaminsky
  • Toby Peters: 1940s Hollywood P.I. in Los Angeles, California who works for famous people

Peter King
  • Jack London: author in the 1890s (before his famous novels) in San Francisco, California

Daniel M. Klein
  • Elvis Presley: back from his tour of duty in Germany, singing and sleuthing in Tennessee

Edward Koch
  • Edward Koch: mayor of New York City

Anna Maclean
  • Louisa May Alcott: amateur sleuth before becoming a famous author, in pre-Civil War Boston, Massachusetts

Jeffrey Marks
  • General Ulysses Grant: returning to his hometown of Georgetown, Ohio, after the Civil Wa

Philippa Morgan (Philip Gooden)
  • Geoffrey Chaucer: acting as an agent for Edward III in the late 1300s in England and on the continent
William J. Palmer
  • Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens: 19th century writers in London, England

Robert J. Randisi
  • The Rat Pack: (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, et al.) in Las Vegas, Nevad

Elliot Roosevelt
  • Eleanor Roosevelt: 1940s First Lady in Washington, DC

Robert Ross and Martin Woodhouse
  • Leonardo da Vinci: the James Bond of the Renaissance

Walter Satterthwait
  • Phil Beaumont and Jane Turner: Pinkerton agents who investigate famous people in the 1920s
  • Lizzie Borden: three decades after her acquittal of the axe-murder of her father and stepmother

Harold Schechter
  • Edgar Allan Poe: in the 1830s-1840s, in Baltimore, Maryland, New York City, and Massachusetts

Randall Silvis
  • Edgar Allan Poe: author in 1800s New York City

Daniel Stashower
  • Harry Houdini: escape artist

Rosemary Stevens
  • Beau Brummell: arbiter of fashion in the Regency era of Great Britain

Diane A.S. Stuckart
  • Leonardo da Vinci: court engineer to the Duke of Milan, and his apprentice Dino (Delfina in disguise as a boy), in 1480s Milan, Italy

Nicola Upson
  • Josephine Tey: the mystery writer in 1930s Britain

Nancy Means Wright
  • Mary Wollstonecraft: the 18th century English feminist, working as a governess at Mitchelstown Castle, in County Cork, Ireland