Split Infinitives: A Detective Novel of 1930

by Edward Cline

It is late January 1930. This is the twenty-fourth Cyrus Skeen novel. It covers the time after Skeen has married Dilys Jones, his intrepid and lovely secretary, and after he has formed close friendships with Mickey Kane, Lieutenant Raggio, and Lieutenant Donovan. Sergeant Hieronymus, his ally in Beginnings, will be making a parting appearance. Linda Bolding, Lucy Wentz, and Clara Reyes, who figure largely over the next twenty cases, have yet to appear as his secretaries. Skeen meets the eccentric Dr. Willett Martin, who teaches psychology at Wexford College in San Francisco. Martin admires Skeen’s “Trichotomy” article and wants to see if Skeen would cooperate in merging Skeen’s thesis with his own ideas on recidivism. His star student, Roland Michalick, is also enthusiastic about the project. But then one of them is murdered, and Skeen is drawn into a psychological mystery. In December 1929 Skeen gave a lecture on “Trichotomy” at Wexford College, which also ended in murder, but he does not think the new murders had anything to do with that tragedy.

88 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 30, 2017

About the author

Edward Cline is an American novelist and essayist. He is best known for his Sparrowhawk series of novels, which take place in England and Virginia before the American Revolutionary War. He is also the author of First Prize and Whisper the Guns. Outside of his work as a novelist, Cline is known for his writings on esthetics and his defense of capitalism and of free speech. As a writer, his strongest influence has been the philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand. Currently, he is a policy analyst for the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism. He lives in Yorktown, Virginia.





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