While The Lübecker is a novel written to stand alone, as a tale fully conceived, the book also is intended to be appreciated within the framework of a larger work, a work inaugurated by its publication. The novels that follow The Lübecker offer differing perspectives on its events and characters and they also reach back significantly into years approaching its timeline, roughly 1884-1916, and somewhat beyond the action defining those 32 years. Taken together, the books form The Lübecker Saga.