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It really is June 1929. The Roaring Twenties remain roaring, but the period is doomed. San Francisco's famous Cyrus Skeen, private detective and scion of Eastern wealth, is secure in his solvency; he has never bought stock on margin. He's as finicky about what stocks to invest in as he is in the type of client he is willing to accept and improve. Immediately after his case in The Brain of Athena, he is approached by Susan Harker, better half of Hosanna Harker, a noted local novelist accused of murdering his publisher, Marc Pearson, who has apparently pirated a lot of Harker's books and sold them under other game titles and titles. Mrs. Harker would like Skeen to prove that her husband didn't murder the publisher. But immediately after that visit, another woman, Anya Spearitt, calls for that Skeen prove that Hosanna Harker have indeed murder her ex-husband. Skeen does not balk at the task; he senses that something is terribly amiss. A third woman calls on Skeen and asks him never to get involved whatsoever. Skeen trips the jailed novelist and is nearly sorry that he needed on the situation; Hosanna Harker is a very awful person. Skeen rifles through a catalogue of miscreants, malcontents, and suspects, and by the finish of Stolen Words isolates the real murderer. Plagiarism isn't the only wrongdoing Skeen encounters but thieves exploiting each other's thieving and a crew of philandering pragmatists. It's a conundrum only Cyrus Skeen can handle in his own inimitable way.
