Welcome to the 1890s
Seventeen-year-old Winnie Applegate is a trick rider and show performer in her grandfather, Colonel Bill Dexter’s Wild West Extravaganza. When her twelve-year-old inventor brother, Riley is accused of killing a fellow performer, Winnie teams up with a lady Pinkerton agent, Cassie Parker, and the new rowdy, Harry McDonald, to investigate.
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.
The Americans are Coming is the first book in the Applegate Mystery Series, a Victorian Era cozy mystery.
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Our amateur sleuth, Winnie Applegate
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!
“My Applegate Mystery series has been picked up by Cushing Publishing.”
— Sherri Lupton Hollister
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
Winnie and Harry
Sherri Lupton Hollister, author 