Portia of the Pacific Historical Mysteries

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Dark Justice by
Series: Portia of the Pacific Historical Mysteries. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 59,070. Language: English. Originally Published: July 18, 2022 by EMRE Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Political
When Abortion was Against the Law, Attorney Clara Foltz Confronts the Establishment In the fifth mystery of the best-selling and award-winning Portia of the Pacific series, Attorney and Detective Clara Shortridge Foltz and her partner, Attorney Laura de Force Gordon, become involved in two trials. One, an administrative case, Clara defends the accused, an abortifacient merchant, who is...
Chinawoman's Chance by
Series: Portia of the Pacific Historical Mysteries, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 50,510. Language: English. Originally Published: December 3, 2021 by James Musgrave. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Women's fiction » Feminist, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
The First Woman Attorney in California Fights the Patriarchy of the Nineteenth Century in this best-selling and award-winning series Clara Shortridge Foltz faces a patriarchal nemesis in 1884 San Francisco. When a white prostitute is murdered and flayed down to a skeleton, Clara is hired by the Six Companies of Chinatown to defend the sixteen males who are swept-up by the Chinatown Squad. This...
The Spiritualist Murders by
Series: Portia of the Pacific Historical Mysteries, Book 2. Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 57,550. Language: English. Originally Published: December 3, 2021 by James Musgrave. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
CLARA AND HER FAMILY MUST STOP A MESMERIZING MURDERER Women in 1886 San Francisco are killing their husbands. Attorney detective Clara Foltz uses an eighteen-year-old clairvoyant to track down the mysterious man using the powers of sexual magnetism and mesmerism to turn abused women into murderers. This becomes a family mystery, as Clara's two oldest children get involved. Clara's assistant, Ah...
The Stockton Insane Asylum Murder by
Series: Portia of the Pacific Historical Mysteries, Book 3. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 57,530. Language: English. Originally Published: December 3, 2021 by James Musgrave. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
The Stockton Insane Asylum Murder A Portia of the Pacific Best-Selling and Award-Winning Historical Mystery Volume 3 "Madness can be seen as an intuitive probing into true reality."–R. D. Laing Women were, among others, misdiagnosed as insane by alienists in the 1800s. A female child has been institutionalized in 1887, but the aunt of this child comes to Clara Foltz to say she believes the...
The Angel's Trumpet by
Series: Portia of the Pacific Historical Mysteries, Book 4. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 66,220. Language: English. Originally Published: July 18, 2022 by EMRE Publishing, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
An 1887 Handmaid Gets Her Revenge in This Best-Selling and Award-Winning Historical Legal Thriller and Mystery Series Abraham Lincoln was shot inside Ford's Theater, Washington D.C. In 1887, the investigation team of attorney-detective Clara Shortridge Foltz visits the same theater, which has now been converted into an Army Medical Museum for tourists. But, the same mysterious "vibes" are...