by coinleain » Sat Mar 03, 2012 1:49 pm
What particular historical period are you interested in? You could play with a 1920's American "Gangster" novel. Take inspiration from The Godfather, you know? You can fit a lot of action in there too..mafia warfare, family feuds, maybe a detective is trying to find evidence against a gang but he ends up falling in love with the leader's daughter. Wikipedia has some great sections on "decades" if you go with the historical fiction idea, so you can make a really strong setting with a little research of what was happening at the time.