Download The Black Stone: A Detective Novel of 1930: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery, Book 6 AudioBook Free
In The Dark colored Rock, the 6th trip of Cyrus Skeen - private detective and socialite in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA - it is Feb 1930, marking the finish of the Roaring Twenties and the start of the Major depression and the "Red 10 years" when Soviet spies and Communist fellow travelers have started to infiltrate the government and the culture. In The Chameleon and A Crimson Overture, Skeen tangled with Nazi plotters and Communist spies. With this new case, he confronts a new kind of nemesis that has been gestating in the Middle East for years and years and is now being enabled by essential oil companies and careless foreign regulations: Islam. While looking into 3 murders whose savagery is unprecedented in the annals of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA crime, he starts to comprehend that nemesis and the danger it supports. In a world slowly descending in to the swamp of the approximation, the equivocal, and the pragmatic, Skeen sticks out as a beacon of rationality and moral rectitude. His only allies are his painter wife, Dilys, and an intrepid newspaper reporter, Mickey Kane.
