Beginnings: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery

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. Ske...