Daniel Plainway

Van Reid's family has lived in Edgecomb, Maine, since the 1800s. Reid was a long-time bookseller and lives with his wife and children in a house Reid and his brother built on their family's land. His series of novels about the Moosepath League take place in the late 1800s on coastal Maine.

• Prologue, November 27-December 2, 18961.The Empty House, Thanksgiving 18962.A Voice Before Dawn, November 28,18963.How the News Was Read in Gilead, December 2, 1896Book One, December 3, 18961.Not to Be Confused2.Meeting the Caleb Brown3.The Man Who Would Not Come Ashore4.The Assembled League5.The Hat and the Hack6.The Covington Goal7.The Members Were Disarming8.The Portrait and Apple PandowdyBook Two, December 4, 18969.Several People Recently Met10.A Tale from Other Seasons11.Incident on a Train12.The Quiescent Incarceration of Tom Bull13.Startling Circumstances at the Abode of Mr. Thole14.Emulating the Chairman15.The Reason Why16.Calling Capital GainesBook Three, December 5, 189617.Lovely, Dark and Deep18.John 19:2719.The Undisclosed Motives of Roger Noble20.Frantic Whispers and Pointed Dispatch21.Beyond the Forest of Fallen Trees22.Stones in the Lake23.Speech at Midnight24.The Tor25.Others Lost Their Hats as Well26.The Banks of Lake George27.The Span Between Trains28.More Sense of a Letter29.Number Two in a Series of Three30.Advice Did Not Come Cheap31.The Ox at Plow32.The Third CrashBook Four, December 6, 189633.Gifts34.Advanced Uses for a Hat35.The Last of the Wawenocks36.The Battle of the Smoking Pine37.Curier and Therefore38.–Athians and –Ashians in Flux39.Several Parties Not Necessarily Looking for One Another40.Two Hearts41.Two MoreBook Five, December 7, 189642.Between Tales43.Uncle Francis Neptune44.The Rune and the Worm45.Between Grandfathers46.Unfinished KnittingBook Six, December 8-9, 189647.Several Attempts at Tying Up Loose Ends48.But Some Were Double-Knotted49.And We Were So Sure That Was the Answer50.Mutual Concerns51.PersistenceBook Seven, December 21-22, 189652.Lullaby53.Someone Coming Back54.Parley’s Play55.Expected Sentries Sleep56.A Solstice Carol57.What They Didn’t Know Inside58.More on Several Related Points59.One Final Scoundrel60.One Possible AnswerBook Eight, Christmas Eve-Christmas Day 189661.Through the Kitchen Door62.Two Mysteries63.Hat in the Ring64.Confession in a Christmas Kitchen65.Lightly I Toss My Hat Away66.Spheres in Transit67.Number Six in an Ongoing SeriesEpilogue: The Occupied Pocket, New Year’s Day 1897Author’s Note