Trinity: A Haydn & Speaker Mystery

We present Trinity, a fascinating and erudite mystery novel, as the first in a series by author Reed Browning. Our hope is that you find it compelling, as we did, and that the screen presentation works well for you.

In its initial presentation, as a weekly web serial novel, readers have been enthusiastic about the book, and to their individual preferences (reading it on screen or printing it out to read) have commented that they feel it's workable. We hope you find it to be a page-turner or screen-scroller, as the case may be.

Depending upon your screen size and resolution, you may find an optimal zoom percentage at which you can display pages, then move page by page using an Acrobat key-combo (in Windows) of Shift-PageDown key or Shift-DownArrow key.

In any case, we hope you find it, as we do, a skillful work and an intriguing ride.

• Publisher's Note
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Epilogue

About Reed Browning

Rookie novelist Reed Browning is, in fact, a wily veteran with a long and distinguished writing career. He is best known for his baseball nonfiction. Browning took home the 2001 Casey Award (Best Baseball Book of the Year) for his Cy Young: A Baseball Life, and was a finalist for the Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research for his "lively account of the year Washington won it all," Baseball's Greatest Season, 1924. In all, he has published five books of history, including The War of the Austrian Succession, which was a History Book Club selection.

But Reed is a rookie in the fiction league, and Trinity is his first foray in novelistic writing and storytelling. It's an intricate story, well told. And its subtitle ('A Haydn and Speaker Mystery') signals there are more to follow—several already written, others in progress.

Reed Browning studied at Dartmouth and Yale, where he took a Ph.D., and taught history at Kenyon College from 1967 through 2005. He also served Kenyon as acting president and as provost during that period, and in 2001 won the Trustee Award for Distinguished Teaching. Reed is a regular contributor to Choice Magazine, a publication devoted to book reviews for undergraduate and reference libraries. He lives in Granville, Ohio with his wife Susan.

Vote with Your Eyes

Whether or not they appear here, or as a print series, depends upon your response to the first of the series. Your positive response to Trinity will bring more of Haydn and Speaker from Reed Browning. Use this link or send us an email and tell us what you think.