Download Wintery Discontent: A Detective Novel of 1929: A Cyrus Skeen Novel Volume 13 AudioBook Free
It is Feb, 1929. Cyrus Skeen is chosen by an Austrian aristocrat whom Skeen telephone calls a "One-Worlder Gadabout", Matter Paul Axel Heinrich Joachim von Wormuth-Esterházy, of Vienna, to determine who is wanting to get rid of him. He gives Skeen a list he has compiled of 20 makes an attempt to murder him, including flowerpots are fell from above, a container of poisoned schnapps is directed at him in a "welcome basket", and nearly being run over with a speeding automobile. The count has three suspects who might want him deceased: consular representatives from the German and Austrian consulates in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, and an elusive American ne'er-do-well who serves as the Soviet Union's unofficial consular envoy. Skeen interviews the count's suspects and learns that they indeed don't like the man. But do they hate him enough to commit murder? Skeen himself will not particularly like Matter Esterházy or his notion of forming a EU that would remove the borders on the Continent and nullify the sovereignty of every nation on it. His problem is to learn who's trying to remove the count. And then someone attempts to remove Cyrus Skeen.
