Welcome to the 1890s
Winnie Applegate is not your average seventeen year old. She is a trick rider and performer in her grandfather’s traveling show, Colonel Bill Dexter’s Wild West Extravaganza. Part English and part Lakota, Winnie struggles to fit into either world. She finds solace in learning, medicine is her greatest passion. If there is a problem, she wants to solve it, seeking answers in a combination of science and native lore.
When her brother, Riley is accused of killing a fellow performer, Winnie is determined to prove his innocence. With the help of a lady Pinkerton agent, and the show’s new rowdy, Winnie finds more than she bargained for including her first love.
A series of sabotages threaten to close the show just as they are preparing to travel to England at the behest of a mysterious benefactor.
How to Sabotage a Wild West Show is the first book in the Applegate Mystery Series, a Victorian Era cozy mystery.
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Our amateur sleuth, Winnie Applegate is at it again…
Winnie is more comfortable throwing knives than taking tea. She prefers boots and britches to ballgowns and dancing slippers. England isn’t prepared for the arrival of the Applegate family!
Colonel Bill’s homecoming puts them all in danger. Someone doesn’t want the dukes of Applegate to survive. Can Winnie stop them from killing the present duke or is it already too late?
Meet the Applegate Family and Friends
Winnie, Riley and their father Dr. John Applegate
Colonel Bill Dexter
Yellow Horse
Cassandra Parker, Lady Pinkerton Agent
Harry McDonald
Sarah Poindexter, Dowager Duchess of Applegate
Jeremy Poindexter, Duke of Applegate
Happiness is just out of reach for the Duke of Applegate and his family. Can Winnie once again uncover the mystery in How to Catch a Runaway Heiress?
Sherri Lupton Hollister, author 