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Beginnings: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery

by Edward Cline
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781539699354
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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  • Pages: 124
  • Original Price: USD 5.84
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 177 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Crime

It is early October, 1928. This is the twenty-first Cyrus Skeen detective novel. It covers the time when Dilys Jones was his secretary, and before he formed close friendships with Mickey Kane, Lieutenant Raggio, and Lieutenant Donovan. In this episode, Skeen tackles the mystery of the murder of a China Basin warehouseman. The warehouse has been the target of several break-ins with large quantities of wholesale merchandise being stolen. The man was murdered while protecting his property. Skeen interviews the man's sister, Candice, and learns that the man worked assiduously to avoid bankruptcy and losing the warehouse. The warehousing broker assures Skeen that everything is fine and that the murdered man had repaid the debt he owed the broker. But Skeen senses that something else is behind the murder of the warehouseman and behind subsequent murders. In the meantime, Skeen is having a difficult time understanding his current girlfriend. He makes a decision that will in time affect the rest of his life.

Edward Cline is the author of two detective series and one suspense series, in addition to a six-title collection of his political and cultural columns. Beginnings is the twenty-first in his detective series featuring Cyrus Skeen, a private detective in 1920's and 1930's San Francisco. A second detective series features Chess Hanrahan, in modern times. Hanrahan is a private eye who specializes in solving moral paradoxes and the murders behind them. Cline has also written Sparrowhawk, a popular six-title historical series of novels set in England and Virginia in the pre-Revolutionary period. His articles and reviews have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, the Colonial Williamsburg Journal, and Marine Corps League, two volumes of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, and numerous other print publications. His political, critical, and cultural columns can be found on the weblogs of Rule of Reason, Family Security Matters, and on other venues.

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