Jd Chandler: 6 books

Mud Bay is the southern-most tip of the Puget Sound. When the tide goes out it turns into a bay of mud. Everything is as clear as mud for Richard Esher, a Seattle detective investigating the car accident that killed his partner.From Seattle to Olympia and all points in between Esher's...

Richard Esher is on the road again in three short mysteries:Gone Daddy - fighting mobsters in Las VegasThe Big Sister - at home in Seattle searching for a wayward sister who may be in trouble.Bob's Your Uncle - Esher is in Portland looking for a young man who may be suicidal... or homicidal.The...

In this engaging narrative, author JD Chandler crafts a people's history of Portland, Oregon, sharing the lesser-known stories of individuals who stood against the tide and fought for liberty and representation: C.E.S. Wood, who documented the conflict between Native Americans and the United States Army;...

The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market. Baker filled city coffers and his friends' pockets...

A shocking true chronicle of some of Portland, Oregon’s most infamous criminal cases—from its wild roots as a frontier town to post-war 20th century. Here are some of the most horrifying crimes that made headlines and shook Portland, Oregon. The brutal Ardenwald axe murders. The retribution...

In an era when Portland's shipyards thrived, so, too, did corruption. The Red Scare that followed the 1934 Waterfront Strike allowed gangsters to gain control of some of the city's unions. Working in cahoots with high-ranking city officials, criminals like Al Winter and James Elkins gained power and...