This page will feature events that relate to Violet Strange and the cast of characters that appear in the stories. It will be updated and expanded every so often. (The timeline is an extrapolation by editor and writer Steve Miller and is intended to facilitate the creation of new stories featuring Violet Strange and associated characters.)
1858: Birth Violet�s father, Peter Strange.
1859: Birth Violet�s mother, Emily Strange (maiden name Hatcher)
1880: Birth Violet�s older sister, Theresa
1889: Birth Roger Upjohn, Violet�s future husband.
1891: Birth Violet�s older brother, Arthur.
1893: Birth Violet Strange
1899: Peter Strange disowns Theresa (�Violet�s Own Problem�).
1909: Violet reunites with her sister and resolves to help her. (�Violet�s Own Problem�)
1909: Violet conducts her first professional detective case.
1910: Violet completes her debutante �coming out� process a little younger than most. Period for Anna Katherine Green�s Violet Strange stories. (�Golden Slipper,� �Second Bullet,� �Grotto Spectre,� �The Doctor and His Wife,� �Page Thirteen,� and others.)
1912: Violet�s brother marries.
1913: Marriage of Violet and Roger Upjohn, with Violet becoming Roger Junior�s adoptive mother. (�Violet�s Own Problem.�) Violet becomes Violet Strange Upjohn.
1914: WW I begins. Violet solves her first case as a full-fledged professional detective.
1915: Birth Roger and Violet�s first child. (A girl.)
1918: Birth Roger and Violet�s second child (Another girl, Lily.) End WW I.
1919: Birth Roger and Violet�s third child (A boy.)
1928: The Strange-Upjohn Detective Agency opens its doors, with Violet, Arthur and Roger Jr. making up the staff.
1929: Death Peter Strange. Stock market crash heralds the beginning of the Great Depression.
1933: Roger Junior killed on a case. Violet�s oldest daughter shows that she has inherited her mother�s sharp mind for detective work.
1939-1945: WW II. Most of Arthur and Violet�s children serve in the war. Theresa vanishes in Berlin in 1942, presumed dead.
1951: Arthur retires from the detective agency. The agency now has offices on both coasts and in a number of cities in the Midwest, southwest, and south.
1954: Violet retires from life as a professional detective, but continues sleuthing on the side. The children of both Violet and Arthur carry on the detective agency, having all entered it in the previous years. Grandchildren are waiting in the wings.
1959: Death Arthur.
1963: Death Roger
1969: Death Violet