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    Dark Justice: Portia of the Pacific Historical Mysteries
    Dark Justice: Portia of the Pacific Historical Mysteries
    Dark Justice: Portia of the Pacific Historical Mysteries
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    Dark Justice: Portia of the Pacific Historical Mysteries

    By James Musgrave

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    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 allegedly the incestuous father of a child by his sixteen-year-old daughter, who dies during an abortion attempt. 

     

    But since this is 1887, no criminal charges can be made on the father, so the San Francisco police go after the midwife, a Chinese-American who treated the deceased, a half-Navajo girl, with acupuncture.  Clara and Laura call in witnesses from the past, including a Medicine Man from the victim's mother's tribe in the Arizona Territory, the famous Claflin sisters, suffragists who live in England, and the State Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior.   

     

    The supernatural curse of the tribe's Skinwalker witches, in the form of a coyote, which allegedly can run on two legs like a man, and the strange practices of the Navaho Medicine man and his deaf assistant, cause this mystery to evolve into a much bigger conundrum than merely that of abortion.  The search for truth will end on the Navaho Nation's land, under less than ideal circumstances.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEMRE Publishing, LLC
    Release dateJul 18, 2022
    ISBN9781943457403
    Dark Justice: Portia of the Pacific Historical Mysteries
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    James Musgrave

    James Musgrave has been in a Bram Stoker Finalist anthology, and he’s won the First Place Blue Ribbon for Best Historical Mystery, Forevermore, at the Chanticleer International Book Awards. His most recent publication, “Bug Motel,” is the first story in the Toilet Zone 3 Horror Anthology, Hellbound Books. "Jasmine," is in the anthology Draw Down the Moon published by Propertius Press. His adult short fiction anthology Valley of the Dogs, Dark Stories, won the Silver Medal at the 2021 Reader's Favorite international contest. Two of his historical mystery series are published through and curated by the American Library Association's Biblioboard.com.

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