Manhattan Blues: A Detective Novel of 1929

It is March, 1929. Soon after the adventure of Wintery Discontent, Cyrus Skeen is summoned by his father, Garnett Skeen, to travel to New York City to take care of his mother's trust fund business. Reluctantly, Skeen agrees, and leaves from Oakland, California for the transcontinental journey. Dilys, his wife, sees him off. The trip is uneventful, but in New York he meets an opera diva, Brianna O'Quill, who falls in love with him. And that love causes two murders, and perhaps even three. He...