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A series of short stories and novellas by Elizabeth Bear, covering the years between 1898 and 1962 in the life of [[Vampire Detective Series|vampire detective]] Don Sebastien de Ulloa. The works are set in a world much like ours, except supernatural things are real and -- because magic leveled the playing field -- Europeans were never able to settle the Americas beyond the coastal areas, meaning there are colonies instead of the United States for most of the books.
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* ''New Amsterdam'' (May 2007, Subterranean Press): Sebastien and his court leave England for the British colonies in the Americas, only to find things really aren't any simpler there.
* ''Seven for a Secret'' (novella) (March 2009, Subterranean Press): Lady Abigail Irene Garrett lives her last days in a WWII-era London, while Sebastien deals with werewolves.
* ''The White City'' (novella) (2011, Subterranean Press): Fleeing a tragedy, Sebastien, Abby Irene and Phoebe Smith land in 1902 Moscow, where an old mystery is resurrected. While this book was published after ''Seven for a Secret'', it is set before it.
* ''ad eternum'' (novella) (2012, Subterranean Press): Sebastien returns to New Amsterdam in 1962.
* ''Garrett Investigates'' (November 2012, Subterranean Press)
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* [[Alternate History]]: Implicit in the concept.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|David}}'s death was bad enough, but then the book kills {{spoiler|''Jack Priest???''}} Bear took to her [[LiveJournal]] to justify the decisions.
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