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When the City of San Francisco wrecked outside of Harney, Nevada, Til Duprey lost more than a plum assignment in the Far East. He did manage to gain a wife, however. The couple return to Tennessee in order for Til to recover, when he is offered his dream job. But that dream will take him and his bride into the middle of a war zone. Do they go, or do they stay home where it's "safe"? Meanwhile, one of the first cases the Shay Detective Agency worked on was an insurance fraud that resulted in the property owner going to prison. He would do anything to get revenge on the Shays. He winds up in ...

Families. It's a shame we don't get to pick who are in them. Some family members are wonderful. Others aren't worth the powder to blow their noses. Dylan and Rhys Shay have moved their families to Tennessee, where Dylan is the new chief of police. They had thought there would be far less crime in a rural town than they had to deal with in Baltimore. They are soon to learn that crime in the country is different only because there are fewer people. Dead bodies begin turning up in the fairgrounds. Marcel Duprey and his little family are doing quite well with their music school. Parents are ...

in 1913, the fledgling Bureau of Investigation was tasked wtih apprehending human traffickers. Not only were they hunting violators of the Mann Act, but they were tasked with ending peonage. As today, new immigrants were taken by unscrupulous people and sold into what virtual slavery. A young police officer in Baltimore City receives an urgent message from his cousin, newly arrived from Ireland. Declan Nagel has been fooled into such a sitution, and is being held at a forced labor camp laying rails and building trestles. The BoI investigates the camp, in order to end the traffic in human ...

Now that Landry Glass is a memory, Sophia Davies O'Fallon finds herself in need of a new situation. The pawnbroker, deGroot, puts her together with an ersatz German count, Gerhardt Weissmann. Weissmann and Sophia cut a wide swath through Baltimore's elite, managing to empty safes and jewel cases, and dodge the police at the same time.

Til and Maeve Duprey managed to survive a train wreck on the way to his last assignment. Imagine his excitement when he is offered a plum post at the foreign office of an international news service. While he's covering assorted stories, Til winds up embroiled in not only international affairs, but in hunting for saboteurs and spies sent by Germany to undermine British morale, and possibly the British military infrastructure.

Baltimore City Police Detective Sergeant Dylan Shay has been seconded to the fledgling Bureau of Investigation Baltimore Field Office. One of their first mandated investigations is the pursuit of people in active violation of the Mann Act. Their hunt takes them through multiple states by rail, as they pursue the kidnappers of three young girls destined to be trafficked to a brothel. Will they catch up with the procurer in time?

Laura Tregonning Weissmann has blown into town like an ill wind. After making her singing debut with Isaac Pick at only 17 in Strasbourg, she has gone on to bigger, if not better things. She's been singing with a big band in some dump in Alabama. Her boyfriend, the drummer Lonzo Phoenix, beat her within an inch of her life. It was enough to finally drive Laura to o home to her adoptive father, Wilhelm Weissmann. As Laura is arriving, Til is leaving town for his first big job. His paper is sending him to Lakehurst, New Jersey to cover the arrival of the giant Hindenburg Zeppelin. His ...

Lily Barnett, a failure in medical school through no fault of her own, enters the new nursing program at St Joseph's Hospital. At the very beginning of the War to End All Wars, she steps up and joins the British Medical Corps.

Baritone Isaac Pick is making his international debut. His music master has traveled with him to teach him his part during the trip. Marcel Duprey's estranged father shocks him down to his socks when he receives a command to bring his wife and children to his estate. But he's even more shocked when his half-brother Klaus and Klaus' wife arrive uninvited. Meanwhile, in Tennessee, the families are still trying to recover from when the KKK attacked their homes. In Baltimore, rose was in charge of remodeling the restaurant, and has hired a young woman to work in the kitchen. Was it a mistake?

Things are heating up in Coatesville. The Klan has taken umbrage because there is a group of Catholics in their "Christian" town. Worst of all, those Catholics are doing well for themselves and have the audacity to do things like hire and befriend people of color. Meanwhile, in Baltimore, things are getting even hotter. Dr. Karl Reichmann has established a medical practice near a college where he has young men working as "Therapists" for some of his female patients. Isaac, the young baritone who has graduated from Peabody, has been invited to sing in Europe. His music master has a month to ...

Prohibition is just getting started. Baltimore City Police are told to stand down from any enforcement involving the Volstead Act, as the Governor has claimed his state would be "just as wet as ever". Gabrielle Lane Pennington is out of jail, and ready for a new challenge. Joshua McAleese, the brother of her former associate, has taken over Mickey's operation. He presses Gabby into working with him in order to open a nightclub. Everything is going along swimmingly, the club is making more money than anyone anticipated. Then Gabby made the mistake of asking for more money.

Monument City Mysteries ended in 1925. Now, in 1934, share the lives of the next generation. Declan Dougherty, Mary Faith Shay and her sister Chiara are returning home after finishing college. They step off the train and right into a family tragedy. Just when they think things can’t get worse, Declan’s step-father is called to the police station to stave off a lynching. It is the fledgling attorney’s opportunity to take on his first case as he tries to decide between opening his own practice or going to work for the District Attorney’s office. A young man's life hangs in the balance...

It's late 1934. The German American Bund is on the rise along the East Coast. A few months before, Til Duprey had managed to infiltrate some of their meetings for the FBI. Things didn't go quite as he expected. In Tennessee, young attorney Declan Dougherty has his first big case, defending a woman accused of casting spells on her neighbor. The young attorney manages to impress not just his client, but opposing counsel and the judge. Meanwhile, Declan's twin brother Donagh returns from university in London. The newly minted horse doctor is anxious to establish himself, much to Chiara Shay's ...

Rose Nagel has gone completely off the rails. Back in Baltimore, she has split from her husband of twenty plus years, alienated her only child, and has managed to lose every friend she had in the business known as Zofia’s Cakes and Tarts. Does our Rose try to mend her fences and repair the damage she’s done? No, she takes up with a much younger man. Then things go from bad to worse. In Tennessee, Tadhg Nagel has moved south to be with his daughter Maeve. Meanwhile, Maeve and Til, or as he is known in his byline as “T. Marcel Duprey”, have grown closer. Regardless of her mother’s ...

Til Duprey is living his dream. The young man is working in Europe as a stringer for an international news service, doing a bit of snooping for the US Government, all while helping Father Roncalli smuggle some Jewish orphans out of France. Meanwhile, Maeve Nagel is fed up. She can't live up to her mother's expectations, no matter what she does. It all began when she was born, although Maeve never knew it. At least not until she had the audacity to be seen in public wearing slacks. Then she does the unthinkable and goes out with Til Duprey. Maeve's father takes his daughter's side. Is this ...

The town of Coatesville has just celebrated two weddings. In the midst of their celebrations, someone manages to really irritate the local Klan. The local Klaven rides on the Catholic families in the small town, and on the school. The Robertson County Sheriff really messed up. He was skimming money from the county, accepting bribes, and generally casting a pall on his office. A few months before he had arrested everybody in the courtroom because his deputy couldn't control a prisoner. One of those arrested was Attorney Declan Dougherty. Things go from bad to worse when the sheriff orders ...

Martin Durkin, Jr., "The Sheik Killer", has been cutting a wide swath through the country. He's known far and wide as a vicious cop killer and robber. But he's tall and sharp looking, and the women think he has "IT". He's got three wives in different states, and girlfriends all over the place. He's also got a father who's trying to flatten his time in the Maryland Penitentiary, thanks to the efforts of Tom Ribiero and Dylan Shay of the Bureau of Investigation. When Junior figures out a way to help his father bust out, while he goes after the men who put him away, all hell is about to bust ...

Things have settled down for the Moriarty family. Ted is back in his wife's good graces, They are preparing to return to Baltimore to Ted's job as police captain. In Baltimore, things are heating up. The O'Carrollan crime family has an ax to grind with certain members of the City police force, and Big Dev, the head of the O'Carrollans, is gunning for the officers affiliated with Katy Moriarty's bakery. Marcel and his family have returned from their sojourn in Europe, followed by his father and newly adopted sister. Then things really heat up.

January, 1923. The United States Marine Corps has occupied Haiti since 1915. Danny Shay joined up as soon as he turned 18, figuring he'd get sent to Europe to fight in the War to End All Wars. Instead he got shipped off to Haiti, where he was witness to some of the atrocities being perpetrated against the Haitian population. As soon as he was able, he left the service and began working his way back to Baltimore. He arrives in town only to discover that his brothers have moved to Tennessee. Marcel's half-brother, Klaus, has been letting his jealousy get the better of him. He wants what his ...

A neighborhood grocery store has been firebombed and the owner killed. Some woman is going around town selling "insurance" so the same thing doesn't happen to them. Baltimore City was really living up to its name of "Mob Town" in 1921. Will the police be able to stop the St. Louis Woman? And is she the only guilty party?