Serenity, a Detective Novel of 1930: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery

It is mid-March, 1930. Cyrus Skeen has concluded his case in The Gumshoe Guild. In this, the 38th Skeen novel, Skeen and his wife, Dilys, are attending a party at the mansion of Maud Skipton, their wealthy Nob Hill neighbor, when they are introduced by the society dowager to the Blaines. Serenity Blaines is an admirer of Skeen and in May of the previous year waged a letter-writing campaign in his defense against the CCCPD or the Committee of Concerned Citizens for Public Decency, which want...