Margaret Truman
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Capital crimes series volume 12
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Truman's favorite protagonists, Mac and Annabel Smith, are called in when a weed-covered body is discovered along the banks of the Potomac.
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Capital crimes series volume 9
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On the eve of the presidential election, a young woman is murdered at a Kennedy Center gala. Among the suspects are one of the candidates, his prospective vice-president and the candidate's family.
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Capital crimes series volume 10
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The sleuthing duo, Mac Smith and Annabel Reed, are married in the cathedral's Bethlehem Chapel and then a violent murder shatters the tranquility of their honeymoon.
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Capital crimes series volume 16
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The Washington art gallery owner, Annabel Smith, investigates the blackmarket in rare books. This follows several murders, connected to an attempt to obtain a journal of the voyage of Columbus to the New World
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Capital crimes series volume 15
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Gallery owner Annabel Smith and her husband, law school professor Mac, become involved in a murder investigation when a man is found shot to death in the parking garage of the Watergate complex in the middle of a speech by presidential candidate Joe Aprile.
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Capital crimes series volume 18
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Max Pauling, formerly of the CIA, has moved from Washington to New Mexico, but he is still a pilot of small planes. It seems that Cuba has first-rate medical research facilities. Max is hired to investigate, on behalf of Signal Labs, a probable situation of a German and American company combining to buy out the Cuban research on cancer drugs.
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Capital crimes series volume 6
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[1985]
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Special agent George Pritchard was nobody's favorite at the FBI. But when his murdered body is found, agents Ross Lizenby and Christine Saksis look for answers--only to find that the bureau wants questions kept to a suspicious minimum ...
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Capital crimes series volume 5
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After a gala party at the British Embassy, the British Ambassador to the United States--gourmand, lover of women and general bon vivant--is found mysteriously poisoned.
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Capital crimes series volume 2
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c1981
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Senator Cale Caldwell and his wife maintained a far-reaching and powerful grip on Capitol Hill society-but not powerful enough to save him from foul play. Despite his eminence and influence, the Senator's life is cut short in brutal fashion at a glamorous reception held in his honor, just two short years after tragedy struck the Caldwell family in the form of the unsolved murder of his niece. When attorney Lydia James suggests a connection between...
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Capital crimes series volume 13
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"What happens when a world-class art expert wants not only to exhibit a long-lost painting by Caravaggio but to own it himself? Margaret Truman takes us into a heady, exciting world of genius with this story of a senior curator at the nation's famed National Gallery of Art who plans a brilliant exhibition around the masterpiece. He also begins to make another, more personal, daring plan. His masterly scheme promises prestige, fame, a small fortune,...
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Capital crimes series volume 4
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Dr. Lewis Tunney, a brilliant historian who had stumbled onto an international art scandal, was brutally murdered in front of two hundred guests at an elegant party at the Smithsonian. When his fiancee, Heather McBea, flies in from Scotland to learn more, Mac Hanrahan, the captain in charge of the case, takes a heated interest in her. And when two more murders are committed, Hanrahan has reason to worry about Heather's sleuthing. But Heather is stubborn...
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Capital crimes series volume 8
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Collette Cahill of the State Department embarks upon a quest to find out why her friend Barrie Mayer, a literary agent, was found dead of an apparent heart attack at Heathrow airport in London.
14) Harry S. Truman
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1973.
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His daughter paints an in-depth portrait of the politician from Missouri who, in the midst of World War II, succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States.
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Capital crimes series volume 1
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[1980]
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The murder, in the executive mansion, of the secretary of state prompts an immediate and sweeping investigation of all suspects, including the president and his family, an investigation that leads to a second astonishing murder
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Capital crimes series volume 7
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[1986]
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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.
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Capital crimes series volume 19
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When Washington, DC, police detectives Mo Johnson and Rick Klayman arrive at this famous venue, they find the body of Nadia Zarinski, a congressional intern romantically linked to Senator Bruce Lerner. Fate throws in a twist when the detectives discover that the senator's ex-wife is directing the theater's current production. Their son becomes the number one suspect when the footprint from a pair of shoes he has matches the one found in the alley...
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Capital crimes series volume 11
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The investigation of the murder of a chief scientist on an antimissle system brings Major Margit Falk of the Pentagon's legal staff close to the heart of a web of espionage and betrayal.
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Capital crimes series volume 25
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"Times are tough in Savannah for former cop and current PI Robert Brixton, so when he agrees to take on a 20 year-old murder case, he figures hes got nothing to lose. Its not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannahs power elite, and right into the lap of a secret government organization thats been offing 'troublesome' politicians for decades. The cold case heats up when he joins forces with former attorneys Mackensie...
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Rosalie Curzon, a Washington call girl, is found bludgeoned to death in her apartment, where a detective discovers a hidden video camera. President Burton Pyle is running for reelection. Robert Colgate is expected to easily defeat Pyle, whose administration has been rife with corruption and scandal. Colgate, though, is not without cracks in his slick exterior. Rumors swirl about his failing marriage. Then the daughter of Colgate's closet friend is...