Listen, Moon!

by Leonard Cline

A wonderful comic novel telling of a Johns Hopkins Latin Professor, Higbie Chaffinch, as he takes off with the free spirited daughter of a very conservative minister, and a remaining cast of characters consisting of Hiltonshurley Moggs (head of the Moggs Foundation for the purveying of useless things to worthy people), Kendrick, an almost famous reporter for a Baltimore daily and a few others, they sail the Chesapeake Bay, fleeing the Klan, boarding other ships dressed as pirates and of course, pursuing buried treasure. A delightful madcap book.

312 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1926

About the author

Leonard Lanson Cline was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, and journalist. His writings were published in a variety of magazines: he New Republic, The American Mercury, The Smart Set, The Nation and Scribner's Magazine. His journalist work was published in the Baltimore Sun, The New York World, The Chicago Daily News, The New York Herald Tribune, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

In 1927, during a drunken quarrel, Cline shot his friend Wilfred Irwin, who died of his wounds several hours later. Cline was tried and sentenced to a year in prison for manslaughter. He was released after eight months for good behavior. Henry Luce gave Cline a job at Time when he got out of prison.