Oliver Redcastle Gilded Age Mysteries

PASSIONATE LOVERS AND DEADLY ENEMIES. It’s a scorching July in the summer of 1884. William Pinkerton has sent Oliver Redcastle to the Midwestern island paradise of Put-in-Bay. The assignment seems simple: capture a tight-rope-walking train robber. But two beautiful women, a dangerous cult, and reminders of Oliver’s Civil War past complicate the...

In 1884 Baltimore, medical mischief is running rampant and a young boy has been kidnapped. Enter Oliver Redcastle, ex-Pinkerton detective and Union sharpshooter, who is hired to find the missing child.
As he searches for clues, Oliver finds himself navigating the dangerous harbor and the mean streets of Baltimore where homeless children run wild...

It’s 1882 and once again Oliver Redcastle is about to dive into mayhem. He’s no stranger to bloodshed. Memories of the men he has killed, first as a Pinkerton Detective, then as a Union Army sharpshooter haunt his days -- and his nights. He dreams of putting his past behind him and, upon learning that he has unexpectedly inherited a house in...

1885 FLORIDA: WILD PIGS AND WILDER PEOPLE! Winner of the Silver Palm for the Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Award, Trouble in Tampa is a thrilling look at the Wild South of Florida in 1885. An easy assignment for sharpshooter and ex-Pinkerton investigator, Oliver Redcastle, turns deadly.
A wealthy Baltimore art collector sends an...

THEY WERE DEADLY BEAUTIFUL. 1886 New Mexico and troubles swarm. Sharpshooter and ex-Pinkerton detective, Oliver Redcastle, opts for the quiet life. Hoping to leave his violent past behind and provide his asthmatic young daughter a healthy environment, he settles on a sheep ranch with a mountain view.

As capricious as she is gorgeous, Marietta...

Dearth on the High Seas! It’s 1888 and Oliver Redcastle’s teenaage daughter, Chloe, goes missing.

Kidnapped by an unscrupulous orchid-hunter, she disappears into Florida’s vast watery wilderness, the Everglades.

To find her the ex-Pinkerton detective crosses an ocean, battles an assassin, defies murderous train robbers, and confronts...

Oliver Redcastle Takes on London Intrigue. His on-again, off-again lover, Marietta, faces a murder charge and, possibly, the hangman. To save his daughter’s fickle mother, Oliver, reluctantly, crosses the Atlantic. Little does he know that to rescue her he’ll have to deal with a ruthless spymaster, professional assassins, and a murky welter of...

Oliver comes home to murder. An arch enemy hunts him, his friends, and those he loves. Multiple Murders, a scheme to steal an enormous chunk of western land, and problems at home beset Oliver Redcastle. To protect his family and survive his foes he must untangle a web of malice and deceit. Discover Oliver Redcastle Mysteries.

A murdered warrior, a threatened inheritance, and more than one beautiful woman in trouble--once again Oliver Redcastle plunges into chaos.
When an enormous painted canvas depicting a crucial Civil War battle gets stolen and repainted to misrepresent the event, Hannah Kinchman, a female colleague of Oliver’s, investigates. She calls on him to...

Step into a world brimming with grandeur, mystery, and danger as intrepid detective, Oliver Redcastle, takes center stage in a captivating Gilded Age tale. Rebel Hoard weaves an intricate web of post-Civil War intrigue, unleashing a whirlwind of suspense and adventure that will leave readers spellbound from the very first page.

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Oliver Redcastle’s enemies are out for blood. Appease them, foil them, or do a disappearing act?

Before he can find a way to elude his lethal adversaries, he must save his daughter from a merciless scam artist, and see her through a crisis.

There’s more! Can he outshoot a persistent Civil War opponent, ferret out the cause of a brutal accident,...