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Originally Posted by BelleZora
Thanks for this, mitford13. I had never heard of Paul Doherty and had to look him up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_C._Doherty
This is an especially great find for me because I want to focus on Great War books. I am delighted to find a mystery that fits that description. |
If you are willling to extend to pre-Great War activities, one of my top four favorite mystery authors, Michael Pearce, has two series set in the run-up to WWI. The first, the Mamur Zapt series, is set in Cairo during the British "Protectorate", and the second, the Sandor Seymour/"Dead Man In" series, features a Special Branch officer sent to various political hot spots of pre-WWI days. The politics serve as background to both, but are a little more obvious in the Seymour series.
Sadly, only the last one of the Mamur Zapt books is available as an ebook, but many or all of the Seymour books are available as ebooks.
I find Pearce's books to be well written and hysterically funny in an understated, dry, sort of way. The plots are not the central part of what I enjoy - instead it's the atmosphere, the locations, and the characterizations that are great.
Another (non-fiction, so off-topic) author if you are willing to extend to pre-WWI is Peter Hopkirk, who has written extensively about the Great Game period and the British Raj. I've read three or four of his books, and quite enjoyed them as well.