Murder in Georgetown (Capital Crimes Series #7)

by Margaret Truman

Overview

"The oil of inside knowledge lubricates the asembled whole into a smooth-running, fast-moving narrative."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Beautiful twenty-year old Valerie Frolich, a Senator's daughter, is killed at a posh Georgetown party. And when Joe Potamos, of the Washington Post's police beat, is assigned to report the murder, he finds out a number of things about Valerie which lead him to a number of startling questions about Georgetown's most powerful men and women—questions whose answers have the power of life or death....

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780449213322
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/28/1987
Series:	Capital Crimes Series , #7
Pages:	327
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Margaret Truman has won faithful readers with her works of biography and fiction, particularly her ongoing series of Capital Crimes mysteries. Her novels usher us into the corridors of power and privilege, poverty and pageantry, in the nation's capital. She lives in Manhattan.

Editorial Reviews

Truman's seventh, meatiest novel involves a group of blackguards, posing as prominent patriots in the nation's capital. One is Senator John Frolich whose young daughter Valerie, a journalism student, is murdered. Reporter Joe Potamos questions the victim's classmates and their instructor, George Bowen, a crony of the senator, and Marshall Jenkins, a politically powerful land developer. Frolich's presidential aspirations are well known and Potamos begins to suspect the man has sacrificed his daughter to prevent her from talking about his secret, illegal deals. When another of Bowen's students is killed, and Potamos's lover disappears, the reporter is outraged. Convinced that Watkins, Frolich and Bowen are guilty, Potamos breaks into their formidable hideout where the story ends with several bangs. It may be deemed the best of Truman's bestsellers. Mystery Guild selection, Literary Guild alternate. (July 31)

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