CLARA AND HER FAMILY MUST STOP A MESMERIZING MURDERERWomen in 1886 San Francisco are killing their husbands. Attorney detective Clara Foltz uses an eighteen-year-old clairvoyant to track down the mysterious man using the powers of sexual magnetism and mesmerism to turn abused women into murderers. This becomes a family mystery, as Clara's two oldest children get involved.Clara's assistant, Ah Toy, must also enlist the help of her evil uncle, Little Pete, ...

When Abortion was Against the Law, Attorney Clara Foltz Confronts the EstablishmentIn the fifth mystery of the best-selling and award-winning Portia of the Pacific series, Attorney and Detective Clara Shortridge Foltz and her partner, Attorney Laura de Force Gordon, become involved in two trials. One, an administrative case, Clara defends the accused, an abortifacient merchant, who is allegedly the incestuous father of a child by his sixteen-year-old daughter, who ...

Boomtown San Diego, in 1888, erupts in murder. Retired Marshal and hero of the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp is involved.What's really going on?Award-winning, best-selling mystery author, James Musgrave, takes issues from the present and turns them into ingenious puzzles for readers to solve. In the Nineteenth Century the same human foibles existed, but the problems happened at a much slower pace.In The Dancing Murders, Musgrave turns four suspects over t...

An urban legend in San Diego that there are secret laboratories beneath a sidewalk's panes of thick glass. They are creating super soldiers using the homeless population.

The First Woman Attorney in California Fights the Patriarchy of the Nineteenth Century in this best-selling and award-winning series.Clara Shortridge Foltz faces a patriarchal nemesis in 1884 San Francisco. When a white prostitute is murdered and flayed down to a skeleton, Clara is hired by the Six Companies of Chinatown to defend the sixteen males who are swept-up by the Chinatown Squad.This ragtag and corrupt group of sheriffs works for the mayor, Washington Bartlett. The...

A retired college instructor and former teacher in India meet online and decide to meet in person during COVID. They form a pact to be together forever.

Dark Stories for Readers with Surreal and Deep TastesSilver Medal Winner of the 2021 Reader's Favorite International Contest for Best Adult AnthologyA B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree, 20219.25 overall Evaluation at BookLife, Publishers WeeklyHollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings, who must get paid along the journey to the addicts...

An 1887 Handmaid Gets Her Revenge in This Best-Selling and Award-Winning Historical Legal Thriller and Mystery SeriesAbraham Lincoln was shot inside Ford's Theater, Washington D.C. In 1887, the investigation team of attorney-detective Clara Shortridge Foltz visits the same theater, which has now been converted into an Army Medical Museum for tourists.But, the same mysterious "vibes" are circulating among the skulls, surgical instruments and garishly frighte...

Yorick returns from the grave to seek assistance from Satan and take-over the Danish crown. Except, he wants the fictional crown at Elsinor, and he arrives at the castle in 2022 Copenhagen.

Should children be seen with zombies? Should zombies be children? What kind of a demented mind would want such a thing to happen?Horror on the Installment Plan's premier issue wants to explore this theme in order to give you a few thrills, a few moments of fear, and perhaps even gross you out a bit! Yes, and this theme also has a few laughs (dark ones, or, what my Pappy Skeleton used to call "gallows humor.")The authors of these stories are committed (or should be committed...

Setting is the Battle of the Alamo February 23 to March 6, 1836, in San Antonio, Texas, and afterward, when Santa Anna occupies the mission. Hannah has just returned from Scotland, where she was assisting the famous Scottish surgeon James Braid, the father of the use of mesmerism during surgery. She meets the narrator, journalist Edward Calmes, who works for Blackwell's Magazine in Edinburgh Socotland.Hannah visits President Andrew Jackson at his invitation, and become a m...

The Dancing Murders is the latest iteration in a series of mysteries and murders that revolve around the amazing and redoubtable Clara Shortridge Foltz. As one of the very first women attorneys and private detectives seeking to perform in a man's arena, Clara always has her back to the wall but her deductive skills and her uncanny intuition have seen some label her as the real-life incarnation of the fictional Sherlock Holmes. Author James Musgrave uses a literary contrivance of telling es...