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To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis & Clark    by Frances Hunter
Price: $4.99 USD. 159940 words. Published on November 24, 2009. .

St. Louis, 1809. Three years after the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Meriwether Lewis never felt less like a hero. Trapped in a thankless political job, he's drinking too much and spending money like there’s no tomorrow. Confronted by an unexpected and dangerous enemy, Lewis finds himself drawn into a conspiracy to put him and William Clark at the head of a new American empire.
Timber Beasts: A Sage Adair Historical Mystery of the Pacific Northwest    by S. L. Stoner
You set the price! 99190 words. Published on January 30, 2010. .

A secret operative in America's 1902 labor movement, leading a double life that balances precariously on the knife-edge of discovery, finds his mission entangled with the fate of a young man accused of murder. An early 20th century Pacific Northwest historical mystery based on a true crime committed by Portland's ruling elite.
Death at the Fair    by Frances McNamara
Price: $6.99 USD. 72640 words. Published by alliumpress on February 4, 2010. .

The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition provides the vibrant backdrop for this engrossing tale. While Emily is busy exploring the Exposition with her family and friends, one of them is accused of murder. She sets out to search for the truth behind the crime, but is thwarted by the thieves, corrupt politicians, and gamblers ever present in Chicago. Will appeal to history buffs and mystery fans.
Death at Hull House    by Frances McNamara
Price: $6.99 USD. 80270 words. Published by alliumpress on March 29, 2010. .

Emily Cabot is expelled from the University of Chicago, and finds work at Jane Addams’s Hull House. A man is murdered in the parlor, and Emily must determine whether one of her colleagues is responsible, or whether the murder is revenge for a family tragedy. As a smallpox epidemic rages through Chicago, Emily finds herself in jeopardy from both the deadly disease and a killer.
Dandy Detects: A Victorian San Francisco Story    by M. Louisa Locke
Price: $0.99 USD. 7330 words. Published on April 17, 2010. .

It's 1879, San Francisco swelters under a heat wave and Barbara Hewitt, a reserved school-teacher, uncovers a mystery with the help of a dog named Dandy. This short story is set in the gas-lit Victorian world created by Locke in her historical mystery, Maids of Misfortune. For those of you already familiar with that world, welcome back, for those who are not, welcome!
Abraham Lincoln for the Defense    by Warren Bull
Price: $2.99 USD. 72370 words. Published on April 25, 2010. .

Young Abraham Lincoln had to defend against a unique murder charge. The Trailor brothers and a friend arrived in Springfield, IL. The next day the brothers left alone. With Lincoln away rumors spread, the brothers fell out and a lynch mob raged. Lincoln returned to find people set on a double hanging. Standing between the brothers and the hangman’s noose was Abraham Lincoln for the defense.
Heron Island    by R. A. Harold
Price: $2.99 USD. 126680 words. Published on May 12, 2010. .

Widowed Rough Rider Dade Wyatt longs to cast off his shadowed past and retreat to a quiet life as a security operative for paper tycoon Warren Dodge. But when plans to host Wyatt’s old commander Teddy Roosevelt on Dodge's idyllic Vermont island are imperiled by a guest’s death, Wyatt descends into a maelstrom of poverty, anarchy and class war to safeguard the President and catch a killer.
Out of Time    by Monique Martin
Price: Free! 97940 words. Published on June 20, 2010. .

Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't. Simon and Elizabeth's developing relationship is tested by demons real and imagined. In 1920s Man
Still Life With Murder (Nell Sweeney Mysteries, Book 1)    by P.B. Ryan
Price: $0.99 USD. 94900 words. Published by Patricia Ryan on July 9, 2010. .

National bestseller Still Life With Murder is the first book of P.B. Ryan’s acclaimed historical mystery series featuring Boston governess Nell Sweeney and opium-smoking former battle surgeon Will Hewitt. Thought to have died during the Civil War, Will is arrested for murder, and Nell must prove his innocence. Originally published by Berkley Prime Crime.
Murder in a Mill Town (Nell Sweeney Mysteries, Book 2)    by P.B. Ryan
Price: $4.99 USD. 75220 words. Published by Patricia Ryan on July 9, 2010. .

Boston governess Nell Sweeney and her employer’s morphine-addicted son, Dr. Will Hewitt, investigate the disappearance of a young woman who worked in the Hewitt family's textile mill in Book #2 of P.B. Ryan’s behistorical mystery series, Murder in a Mill Town. Bk #2 a finalist for the prestigious Mary Higgins Clark Award. Originally published by Berkley Prime Crime.