The year is 1902. John Sagacity Adair, "Sage" to his friends, is a wealthy restaurant proprietor in Portland, Oregon. Beneath the flickering gaslights of his elegant eatery, Mozart's Table, Sage appears urbane and attractively shallow. ...
It's 1902 and two men have disappeared, sending Sage Adair on a desperate search that leads him into the Stygian blackness of Portland's underground to confront murderous shanghaiers, a lost friendship and his own dark fears.
...A losing labor strike, a dead construction boss, a union leader framed for murder, a ragpicker poet, and collapsing city bridges, all compete for Sage Adair's attention as he slogs through the Pacific Northwest's rain and mud to find answers before s...
In this ripping yarn, President Theodore Roosevelt has left Washington D.C., embarking on his historic train trip through the American West. Little does he know that assassination awaits him in Portland, Oregon. The words of a dying prostitute war...
This fifth book in the series thrusts Sage Adair into an unfamiliar landscape and social milieu -- a situation that challenges his skills and endangers his life. It's 1903 and a range war is brewing in Central Oregon. Extortion by an enemy sends Sage...
During a blistering 1903 summer, Portland's steam laundry women are working ten hellish hours a day. Exhausted and ill, they demand a nine hour workday. Sage Adair, and his mother, Mae, join their fight until the women begin disappearing. Desperately...
Progessive History With a Mystery TwistThe eight Sage Adair Mysteries are set in 1902, Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. These adventure stories highlight the positive changes made by that era’s progressives at a time when wealth and powe...
Sage Adair and his multi-ethnic companions discover, in their fight for social justice, that what you eat might kill and has. Their effort to stop the poisoning takes the reader on a wild ride alongside the story characters who cross international bo...
Repercussion is a current-day murder mystery. Social worker Maggie Kubiac has rebuilt her life until it is good. She loves her son, neighborhood, teaching, and profession. Abused people come to her for counseling but sometimes they ask for more, part...
Progressives' History With A Mystery TwistMarch ends with its usual mix of delight and deluge. Within days, fear buries the delight, and the deluge turns deadly. Suddenly, Sage Adair and his crew must discover and defeat more than one formidable...