James D. Brewer

A Choctaw Parker Mystery

1 - Blood on the Crossties (Apr-2023)

A Masey Baldridge/Luke Williamson Mystery

1 - No Bottom (Mar-1994)
2 - No Virtue (Aug-1995)
3 - No Justice (Jul-1996)
4 - No Remorse (Jul-1997)
5 - No Escape (Jun-1998)

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  No Bottom
  

  • Mar-1994
  • / Historical Mystery

  A Masey Baldridge/Luke Williamson Mystery - 1
  

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  No Virtue
  

  • Aug-1995
  • / Historical Mystery

  A Masey Baldridge/Luke Williamson Mystery - 2
  

  Establishing a shaky truce based on honor and common interests, former Union officer Luke Williamson hires Confederate veteran Masey Baldridge when the first mate of his Mississippi paddlewheeler, an African American, is accused of murder....

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  No Justice
  

  • Jul-1996
  • / Historical Mystery

  A Masey Baldridge/Luke Williamson Mystery - 3
  

  The third installment in the acclaimed Reconstruction era series finds Baldridge and Williamson--the Pinkerton Detective Agency's top detective team--traveling the Mississippi in the wake of the Civil War on the lookout for a murderer....

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  No Remorse
  

  • Jul-1997
  • / Historical Mystery

  A Masey Baldridge/Luke Williamson Mystery - 4
  

  Masey Baldridge knew drunks, and he knew that Stuart Van Geer was not drunk. He also had serious doubts about the man's guilt. All he could be certain of was that Van Geer had confessed to the murder of his own father and that the widow was willing t...

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  No Escape
  

  • Jun-1998
  • / Historical Mystery

  A Masey Baldridge/Luke Williamson Mystery - 5
  

  The fifth novel in the series finds Luke Williamson and his ship under quarantine as yellow fever passes through Memphis in 1873, along with a card sharp due to stand trial for murder. By the author of No Justice. ...

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  Blood on the Crossties
  

  • Apr-2023
  • / General Fiction

  A Choctaw Parker Mystery - 1
  

  Railroad detective Choctaw Parker works to solve all manner of murder-most-foul in Florida during the Gilded Age.In early February of 1885, the robbery of the Pensacola and Atlantic train could not have come at a worse time for Florida panhandle rail...

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  Blood on the Trestle
  

  • Aug-2025
  • / Historical Mystery

  Railroad detective Jimmy Lee Choctaw Parker returns in this Gilded Age thriller when in August of 1886 he is hired by oil baron and entrepreneur Henry Morrison Flagler who is buying up railroads and building his grand new Ponce de Leon Hotel in St. A...

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