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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 ...

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?

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.

Baltimore City, 1911: For the first time in its history, prostitution has been made a crime. Brothels are being closed, inmates tossed onto the street. Two young women, forced into "the life" as young teens, manage to break free of their past and open their own business, a small bakery. The man responsible for trafficking them comes back, trying to insinuate himself into their lives.

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 ...

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 ...

With Rory O'Fallon history, Sofie Davies O'Fallon is in search of a new partner in crime and protector. She finds Landry Glass. A former calvelry officer, world traveler and ladies man, Landry moves in on Sofie and shows her all the things she's been missing in life, while helping her find bigger and better scores. Meanwhile, the police are trying to catch Glass and Sofie doing something they shouldn't. Tomas Ribiero goes undervocer, and finds way more than he ever expected.

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.

Why Are You Weeping, Sister? Gwendolyn Graham's last happy day was just before her 15th birthday, the day before her beloved father died. Her mother forces her to abandon everything she has ever known, including the young man she loves and hopes to wed, and drags her from their farm to Baltimore, where she throws her daughter into the path of every man who shows an interest. Unfortunately, one of those men is a brothel owner. When Gwendolyn disappears, Detective Shay has to find her before it's too late. The House That Jack Built Baltimore City. 1910 Police hunt across the strata of society...

Gwendolyn Graham's last happy day was just before her 15th birthday, the day before her beloved father died. Her mother forces her to abandon everything she has ever known, including the young man she loves and hopes to wed, and drags her from their farm to Baltimore, where she throws her daughter into the path of every man who shows an interest. Unfortunately, one of those men is a brothel owner. When Gwendolyn disappears, Detective Shay has to find her before it's too late.

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 ...

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 ...

Wilhelm Weissmann and his bride of five months have welcomed a new arrival, Sofia Alis Weissmann. Unfortunately, a younger member of the Weissmann clan, Til Duprey, managed to infiltrate the German American Bund, who in turn took revenge on young Til by having his mother murdered. The killer was eventually killed. But the Bund never forgets. Two days after her christening, two week old Sofia Alis is stolen from her bed. Was it the Bund? A Klan member with an ax to grind? And the bigger question, where is she, and will she be returned to her parents unharmed?

Everybody's two-stepping. They're dancing to Jazz, the new music performed so well at Gans Goldfield, the first "black and tan" club in Maryland, where the races can mix. Politicians are two-stepping, making money hand over fist, and spreading it around amongst their constituents. The cops are two-stepping, too, trying to catch up with the usual suspects, and to prosecute crooked politicians. The women who own Zofia's Cakes and Tarts are doing their own version of the two-step, when the Archdiocese demands they give up their bakery so a church may be built on its location. The fledgling ...

Baltimore City. 1910 Police hunt across the strata of society for a murderer. His victims seem to be from all social levels.

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 ...

July 1935: An oddly dressed young woman is found wandering a country road, bloody and covered in ants. Later, a body is found in a wrecked car about two miles away. The question is, what happened to the woman, and is the blood hers? Follow the continued drama of the families in Tennessee Valley Blues Mysteries.

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 ...

April 4, 1917: The United States enters The Great War. Young men are being drafted, while young women volunteer to serve in auxilary positions, freeing "A Man to Fight." Rhys Shay has his draft notice, and is preparing to report any day now. Lucy Goodheart, the young woman his brother rescued from a sex trafficker five years before, has learned the art of telegraphy from her foster father. Now that she is out of school, she joins the U.S. Navy in the only capacity available, as a Yeoman (F). Not only does being a Yeomanette enable her to make use of her telegraphy skills, it lets her feel ...