Edward Cline

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....

The American Revolution did not just happen....

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....

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....

Rational Scrutiny discusses why Chess Hanrahan and Cyrus Skeen are not only extraordinary men of action, but “intellectuals"....

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

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

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....

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

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....

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....

The Sparrowhawk Companion has become an indispensable reference book for readers of the Sparrowhawk series....

Skeen is drawn into a bizarre conspiracy that leads to a twisting trail of lies, half-truths, England, and an organization with ties to the burgeoning Nazi Party in Germany....

Chess Hanrahan is the chief of police of Auberley, a university town in Massachusetts. It was quiet, sedate, not much of a challenge. But then a philosophy professor is murdered....

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

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....

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 The Pickwick Affair, he runs head on into a gangsters working for a government agency dedicated to "detoxifying" Americans and instilling fear into them....

Skeen confronts a new kind of nemesis that has been gestating in the Middle East for centuries and is now being enabled by oil companies and careless foreign policies: Islam....