A historical novel about a pioneer family's journey from Western Pennsylvania to the Northern Illinois prairie by flatboat along canals, the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1846. Based on a true story.

The year is 1868. A young Native American boy, a Wintu, leaves the reservation in the Mendocino County of California to search for his father, a white man, who had been taken in by the tribe after an attack by a bear. His journey, and that of his sister, a companion from another tribe, and a young Chinese "Daughter of Joy," follow the Iron Trail of the First Transcontinental Railroad as it is completed, and as its Last Spike is driven into the hearts and minds and hopes of America's indigenous people.

A young girl on vacation at the Palm Beach hotel The Breakers thinks she discovers a murder. Violet might only have been twelve, but she was worldly. When her mother brought her and her sisters to Palm Beach, she hadn't expected to discover the body of a murdered man, or to be pursued by his killer. Nor had she expected a lady would be careless with a curling iron...

A historical fiction novel set in 1912 Chicago. "The murder victim is slumped over his desk, a bullet hole in his forehead, a pool of blood spreading slowly on the green felt blotter on which he lies. The only door to the room is locked and bolted from the inside..." thus began the narrative presented as an intellectual puzzle by my friend and companion, Rodney Morton. What I didn't expect was that the game would be interrupted by a real-life murder-one that involved a former girl friend and her family. Now I had two mysteries to unravel.