The Pickwick Affair: A Detective Novel of 1930

In The Pickwick Affair, Cyrus Skeen and his wife enjoy a brief respite on a luxury bus, only to be caught in a dangerous hijacking by gangsters, leading Skeen to intervene heroically. Set against the backdrop of 1930 San Francisco during the Great Depression, the novel explores themes of economic hardship, societal unrest, and government corruption. Skeen's actions pull him deeper into a web of peril involving criminal elements and a government agency with sinister motives, revealing the darker undercurrents of the era.