S L Stoner: 7 books

Praise for the Sage Adair Historical Mystery Series of the Pacific Northwest Most 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...

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.

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”...

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...

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.

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...

Progressive History with a Mystery Twist Arson, murder, kidnapping and false accusations abound in this seventh book of the Sage Adair series which crafts its early twentieth century stories around actual historical events and people. In Slow Burn what begins as a simple assignment--helping...