Edward Cline

The American Revolution did not just happen....

As the British Crown plans to exact its Stamp Tax on the North American colonies, Hugh Kenrick, Jack Frake, and their friends plot to foil the arrival of the hated stamps in the colony....

Jack Frake and Hugh Kenrick resign themselves to the likelihood of war with the Crown. Hugh returns to England on urgent personal business....

It is fall,1759. The saga of Jack Frake and Hugh Kenrick moves to Caxton, a small trading town on the York River in Virginia, some miles up the wide river from Yorktown....

Book Two introduces the second young hero, Hugh Kenrick, a member of the British aristocracy....

Cyrus Skeen, private detective, scours 1928 San Francisco in search of the man who stole a priceless medieval artifact....

When Merritt Fury, a fiercely independent American entrepreneur, returns to Hong Kong on business, little does he know that he has become enmeshed in a conspiracy to confiscate his investment....

Cyrus Skeen is hired by Edgar Freund, the defense attorney of Enoch Paige to find evidence that will exonerate his client of the crime....

We Three Kings is about how a single man defeats a vicious conspiracy to deny him his property and his life...

In this episode of Skeen's cases he is invited by a new political party to stand for the office of public defender in next month's city election....

Islam's Reign of Terror chronicles the war waged against the U.S. and the West, resulting in over 24,000 acts of terror and tens of thousands of deaths....

During a Nob Hill society party, Skeen and his painter wife, Dilys, befriend a beautiful sculptress who turns out to be a British spy carrying important information....

It is February, 1929. Cyrus Skeen is hired by an Austrian aristocrat whom Skeen calls a "One-Worlder Gadabout", Count Paul Axel Heinrich Joachim von Wormuth-Esterházy....

Plagiarism isn't the only wrongdoing Detective Cyrus Skeen encounters but thieves exploiting each other's thieving and a crew of philandering pragmatists....

In Run from Judgment, Merritt Fury finds himself the target of a mysterious assassin who is eliminating, one by one, the financial enablers of the world's terrorists....

In Part One, Cyrus Skeen, private detective in 1929 San Francisco, is asked by Charles Gilchrest, chairman of The Daedàlus Society, an exclusive men-only club, to go to the The Daedàlus Grove....

Cyrus Skeen is approached by a man, Bruce Willowman, who wishes him to try to find the murderer of his younger brother, Beauregard, in San Francisco five years before....

It is March, 1929. Cyrus Skeen is called to New York by his father, Garnett Skeen, to attend to some trust fund affairs....

This ninth title in the Skeen detective series pits the formidable sleuth against a group of Nazi-affiliated cultists who wish to bring about the resurrection of an ancient, storied culture....

In this eighth adventure of Skeen's, Hollywood reaches out to him - literally....