Wintery Discontent: A Detective Novel of 1929 (A Cyrus Skeen

Wintery Discontent: A Detective Novel of 1929 (A Cyrus Skeen Novel)

It is February, 1929. Cyrus Skeen is hired by an Austrian aristocrat whom Skeen calls a â€œOne-Worlder Gadabout,â€ Count Paul Axel Heinrich Joachim von Wormuth-EsterhÃ¡zy, of Vienna, to find out who is trying to kill him. He gives Skeen a list he has compiled of twenty attempts to murder him, including flowerpots are dropped from above, a bottle of poisoned schnapps is given to him in a â€œwelcome basket,â€ and nearly being run over by a speeding automobile. The Count has three suspects who may want him dead: consular officials from the German and Austrian consulates in San Francisco, and an elusive American neâ€™er-do-well who acts as the Soviet Unionâ€™s unofficial consular envoy. Skeen interviews the Countâ€™s suspects and learns that they indeed do not like the man. But do they hate him enough to commit murder? Skeen himself does not particularly like Count EsterhÃ¡zy or his idea of forming a European Union that would erase the borders on the Continent and nullify the sovereignty of each nation on it. His challenge is to learn who is trying to erase the Count. And then someone tries to erase Cyrus Skeen.
Country USA
Brand CREATESPACE
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781517491505
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	CREATESPACE
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781517491505
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Wintery Discontent: A Detective Novel of 1929 (A Cyrus Skeen Novel)