It is August, 1929. Fresh and rested from his case in The Daedalus Conspiracy in July, which took him to the Daedalus Grove in Northern California to foil an assassination attempt, Cyrus Skeen hires a new secretary, the promisingly capable Clara Reyes. Soon after that, he 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. It seems that the man...