Review
“TRUMAN HAS SETTLED FIRMLY INTO A CAREER OF WRITING MURDER MYSTERIES, ALL EVOKING BRILLIANTLY THE WASHINGTON SHE KNOWS SO WELL.”
–The Houston Post“THE PLOT BUILDS UP TO A SUPERB DENOUEMENT. ONE WONDERS IF ALL IS FICTION.”
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In a town where the weapon of choice is usually a well-aimed rumor, the strangling of Secretary of State Lansard Blaine in the Lincoln Bedroom is a gruesome first. White House counsel Ron Fairbanks is ordered to investigate. There are persistent rumors that the Secretary was an accomplished womanizer with ties to a glamorous call girl. There is also troubling evidence of unofficial connections with international wheeler-dealers.
In death as in life, Blaine is a power to be reckoned with. For Fairbanks, who loves the President’s daughter, one point is soon clear: only a few highly placed insiders had access to the Lincoln Bedroom that fateful evening. And one of them was the president. . . .