title: Beginnings: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery (The Cyrus Skeen Mysteries) (Volume 21)
author:  Edward Cline 
description: Edward Cline is the author of two detective series and one suspense series, in addition to a six-title collection of his political and cultural columns. Beginnings is the twenty-first in his detective series featuring Cyrus Skeen, a private detective in 1920's and 1930s San Francisco. A second detective series features Chess Hanrahan, in modern times. Hanrahan is a private eye who specializes in solving moral paradoxes and the murders behind them. Cline has also written Sparrowhawk, a popular six-title historical series of novels set in England and Virginia in the pre-Revolutionary period. His articles and reviews have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, the Colonial Williamsburg Journal, and Marine Corps League, two volumes of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, and numerous other print publications. His political, critical, and cultural columns can be found on the weblogs of Rule of Reason, Family Security Matters, and on other venues.
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  Edward Cline
  
  
  THE SKEEN CHRONICLES
  
  
  As Told by Mickey Kane
  
  
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  A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
  
  
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  Patrick Henry Press
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE SKEEN CHRONICLES, AS TOLD BY MICKEY KANE: Copyright©
  
  
  2017 by Edward Cline. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
  reproduced, transmitted or stored by any means without written permission of
  the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical
  articles or reviews.
  
  
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Edward Cline (1946 - )
  
  
  
  
  
  The Skeen Chronicles, as told by Mickey Kane
  
  
  /Edward Cline
  
  
  ISBN-13: 978-1979109109
  
  
  ISBN-10: 1979109109
  
  
  ASIN: B076TLK2F9
  
  
  Back Cover: Portrait of the author by Roxanne Albertoli
  
  
  Patrick Henry Press
  
  
  Delray Beach, FL
  
  
  Publisher’s Note: This book is a work of fiction. Th