School Days: A Detective Novel in December 1929

It is late December 1929. A few days before Christmas. Cyrus Skeen has concluded his case in The Pendulum, and Witnesses the Berlin project to assassinate a German envoy to America, but blame the killing on Skeen's friend, Mickey Kane, a top newspaper reporter for the city's Observer-World. It would thus complicate U.S.-German relations in the aftermath of the Versailles Treaty. The American "Young Plan," to reduce Germany's debt, has been rejected by the German public and by much of the co...