Author S. L. Stoner's award-winning Sage Adair Historical Mystery series offers gripping Pacific Northwest yarns told with verve, intensity and vivid early 1900's detail. The latest book in the series, Dry Rot, is newly released. This series' authentic and well-researched historical detail makes it a popular choice of those seeking to know more about Pacific Northwest history.

Praise for the Sage Adair Historical Mystery Series of the Pacific NorthwestMost Recent Review . . .Adair is a likable and realistic anchor for this well-written, smartly plotted historical mystery series that blends real and fictional people and events. The series is still accumulating a loyal fan base, but each novel brings it closer to the wide acclaim it deserves. — David Pitt, American Library Association Booklist Review, 2014 May IssueDry Rot is a riveting blend of history and mystery that should prove so very hard to put down, highly recommended. Midwest Book ReviewsRecommended Best Books on Portland: S.L. Stoner's historical mysteries, set in 19th and early 20th century Portland. The hero of the series is named Sage Adair, and the titles include Timber Beasts and Land Sharks. L.A. Times WestSir Arthur Conan Doyle had London. George Simeon had Paris. S. L. Stoner has Portland in the early 1900's. Her detective, Sage Adair, is back in the third historical mystery set in...

Sage Adair is working on mundane business accounts when an urgent message arrives. Within hours, he and his friends are struggling to comprehend the harsh reality of Indian reservation life. They journey into that strange and dire world to fight greed. Soon things turn ominous when an Indian Service inspector is murdered and time starts running out for a prominent tribal leader. As they and their tribal allies begin uncovering the reservation's secrets, a small boy disappears, taking the biggest secret with him. This ninth Sage Adair story inserts historical facts into a fast-paced adventure mystery unfolding within the deadly confines of an Indian boarding school and reservation.

Yamhill Press is pleased to announce Black Drop, the fourth book in the award-winning Sage Adair historical mystery series. Written by labor union lawyer and native Oregonian, S. L. Stoner, reviewers have said that the series "combines rousing adventure with accurate back-to-the-past details" to create "a riveting blend of history and mystery. . . so very hard to put down."Black Drop continues in this tradition. This fast-paced story is crafted around Theodore Roosevelt's 1903 visit to Portland, Oregon. The new president has threatened big business and Congress by adopting a progressive program aimed at equalizing wealth and power, reducing abuse of workers, rejecting racial discrimination and preserving the environment. It appears these efforts have triggered an assassination attempt. Against the backdrop of mounting excitement over the impending presidential visit, Sage Adair and his colorful, like-minded friends race to prevent Roosevelt's murder. And, since life is never...

Progressives' History With a Mystery TwistThe eight Sage Adair action-adventure mysteries are set at the beginning of the twentieth century in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. These fast-paced stories highlight the positive changes made by that era's progressives at a time when wealth and power were concentrated in the hands of a few. One reviewer wrote: "Authentic and well-researched, these historical mysteries show a colorful and corrupt city full of complex and shady characters. Sage Adair is a secret operative who works on behalf of the growing labor movement, pursuing his mission into hobo jungles, lumber camps, seedy saloons and the drawing rooms of the rich. Using authentic historical details, the books show readers a different Portland (OR), a time when houses of prostitution flourished, illegal votes bought judges, and employer opposition to unions took the form of murder." Bitter Cry has Sage meeting a young newsboy whose plight embroils the...

This authentic depiction of the shanghaiing trade leaves the reader with a thorough knowledge of this despicable practice, its heros and villains, and the role it played in the economic life of a West Coast city.

During a blistering 1903 summer, Portland's steam laundry women are working ten hellish hours a day. Exhausted and ill, they demand a nine hour workday. Sage Adair, and his mother, Mae, join their fight until the women begin disappearing. Desperately searching for the missing women, Sage and Mae face grave danger midst suffragettes, prostitutes, social workers, white slavers. arsonists and sweatshop bosses. Inspired by actual historical events, this is the sixth book in the award-winning Sage Adair mystery series.

This fifth book in the Sage Adair Historical Mystery series thrusts Sage Adair into an unfamiliar landscape and social milieu—a situation that challenges his skills and endangers his life. It's 1903 and a range war is brewing in Central Oregon. Extortion by an enemy sends Sage on a wild stagecoach ride into the Crooked River country's deep canyons and parched valleys. There he finds cowboys blazing dead lines across the range land that sheep men and their animals dare not cross. The threat is real. Already two shepherds lay dead in remote mountain meadows and soon, another sheepman dies. This time, the murderer attacks his victim in the heart of Prineville—the area's fastest growing town. As Sage races to avert the conflict, he uncovers why these people of the central plateau are embroiled in a crisis not of their own making. And he learns that, unless he and his unlikely allies act quickly, these hardy folk will turn on each other. As the deaths mount, Sage faces a...