An unseemly lesson...in murder. The year is 1896, and college professor Concordia Wells has her hands full: teaching classes, acting as live-in chaperone to a cottage of lively female students, and directing the student play, Macbeth. But mystery and...
A deadly secret that won't stay buried... It is the fall of 1896, and Miss Concordia Wells is hip-deep in the usual tumult of a lady professor's life: classes, clubs, student pranks, and the unending drama generated by the girls she lives with on cam...
A murder...a missing boy...a secret society's bold and deadly plot... It is 1898, and Professor Concordia Wells has come to expect the hectic routine of classes, clubs, teas, and the inevitable student pranks at the women's college. If only she could...
An old flame…an assassin’s bullet…the event of the season….November 1885 Although Penelope Hamilton Wynch doesn’t especially miss her estranged husband, she does yearn for the excitement of the old days, when they worked together on assignm...
Murder aboard the Overland Limited... It is the summer of 1898. Professor Concordia Wells is eager to accompany her friend, Pinkerton detective Penelope Hamilton, on a cross-country train trip to San Francisco. Breathless vistas and exciting locale...
A stolen blueprint, a dead body, and wedding bells….Change is in the air at Hartford Women's College in the fall of 1898. Renowned inventor Peter Sanbourne -- working on Project Blue Arrow for the Navy -- heads the school's new engineering program,...
Missing jewels...a haunted inn...a long-held secret...Penelope Hamilton Wynch, one of the few female operatives employed at the Pinkerton Agency in 1886, is sent to the Adirondacks to investigate the mysterious happenings at Schroon Lake Inn, newly r...
When a killer crashes the honeymoon, three’s a crowd… It’s the summer of 1899, and Professor Concordia Wells -- now Mrs. David Bradley -- eagerly anticipates their honeymoon in the Hamptons. She has one errand along the way, to visit a former s...
Lady detective Penelope Hamilton must navigate a labyrinth of 1880s politics, high society, and murder.On a January night in 1887, trouble comes knocking at Pinkerton detective Penelope Hamilton's door in the form of a sulky young runaway. The girl t...
Beware of rich men bearing gifts…It’s the fall of 1899 and the new Mrs. David Bradley -- formerly Professor Concordia Wells of Hartford Women’s College -- is chafing against the hum-drum routine of domestic life.The routine is disrupted soon en...
Money, love, and murder in 1880s Newport high society... Pinkerton detective Penelope Hamilton is summoned to fashionable Newport to investigate the two-year-old death of a wealthy matron. Did she fall from the Cliff Walk's Forty Steps in the middle ...
A Christmas bounty of murderers and thieves… Pinkerton detective Penelope Hamilton is happiest when she's working on a case. This Christmas season of 1887 should be very merry indeed, as she has two.One seems simple enough—a surveil...
When all the world's a stage, and a murderer waits in the wings… Fleeing her mother's attempt at matchmaking, Pinkerton detective Penelope Hamilton Wynch travels to a Connecticut hotel for a straightforward assignment: escort her sister-i...