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Collection of twelve (mostly historical) mystery short stories, including the Agatha Award-winning "No Man's Land" (featuring WWI female ambulance drivers) and "Keeper of the Flame," first-prize winner in the Cape Fear (NC) Crime Festival competition. Presidential daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth is the sleuth in three stories. Settings range from the Civil War ("Death in Blue and Gray") and the Titanic ("Unsinkable") to the 1918 flu pandemic ("An Epidemic Proportion").