title: Black Drop: A Sage Adair Historical Mystery (Book 4)
author:  S.L. Stoner 
description: In the fourth Sage Adair mystery, set in 1903, the undercover union operative has a couple of serious problems on his hands. Someone is holding young boys hostage, keeping them as sexual playthings for those who can afford them; Sage wants to find out whos behind the slavery ring and stop them once and for all. Meanwhile, President Theodore Roosevelts cross-country train journey is nearing Portland, Oregon, where, Sage has it on fairly good authority, Roosevelt will be assassinated, and Sages union comrades will be framed for the killing. Can Sage rescue the enslaved boys and stop the murder of a president without putting his own life on the line? Sage Adair is a likable and realistic anchor for this well-written, smartly plotted historical mystery series that blends real and fictional people and events. The series is still accumulating a loyal fan base, but each novel brings it closer to the wide acclaim it deserves. --David Pitt
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  Samuel Pepys  
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  # Diary of Samuel Pepys, Feb/Mar 1668/69
  
  
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  February 1st. Up, and by water from the Tower to White Hall, the first time
  that I have gone to that end of the town by water, for two or three months, I
  think, since I kept a coach, which God send propitious to me; but it is a very
  great convenience. I went to a Committee of Tangier, but it did not meet, and
  so I meeting Mr. Povy, he and I away to Dancre's, to speak something touching
  the pictures I am getting him to make for me. And thence he carried me to Mr.
  Streeter's, the famous history-painter over the way, whom I have often heard
  of, but did never see him before; and there I found him, and Dr. Wren, and
  several Virtuosos, 