Pick a topic you know well in history --- or something interesting enough to you that you will do the research to know it well! Think of something a reader can identify with and develop your mystery.
As the other WikiReader has said, you must be interested in the subject to write a good mystery -- if you're not interested, you're not going to finish writing it. Read about some of the conditions that existed back then, about some of the issues of the day, and you ought to come up with lots of ideas for a storyline.
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One series of historical and mystery and courtroom drama that is Excellent is done by James Scott Bell about a female attorney in Los Angeles prior to World War 1. There are six books in that series. He includes the development of aviation, the earthquake of San Francisco, the development of the water way for getting water to the LA basin, the story of BIOLA university (the name is different) and he touched upon a lot of other famous people in his stories. The first three books he co-authored with Tracy Peterson so you have to look for both of their names. His villains are great!
Since the 1950s and 60s are now considered "olden days" by young adults and teens you could write a mystery that takes place during the riots, the hippie rock concerts, the Elvis craze, Surfers who are murdered at Muscle beach or even about the rotten politicians who would not end the Viet Nam War.
You could have someone wake up in another time and place only to realize he or she is wanted for murder. Jazz it up and make the murder victim someone really famous, like Lindbergh, Rockefeller, or the Queen of England in the 1700s.
Let your imagination run wild and put down all the plot ideas you can think about as you read a time line history list.
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