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Murder on Capitol Hill a capital crimes novel

When 200 people from Washington gather at a cocktail reception for Senate Majority Leader Cale Caldwell, they are horrified to find the guest of honor with an icepick through his chest. Lawyer Lydia James is called upon by the widow to act as special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating...

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Main Author: Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008 (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015.
Series:Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008. Capital crimes novel ; 2.
Subjects:
Capitol Hill (Washington, D.C.) > Fiction.
Washington (D.C.) > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Legislators > United States > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Political fiction.
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Summary:When 200 people from Washington gather at a cocktail reception for Senate Majority Leader Cale Caldwell, they are horrified to find the guest of honor with an icepick through his chest. Lawyer Lydia James is called upon by the widow to act as special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating Caldwell's murder. When her prime suspect turns out to be Caldwell's son, Mark, whose past involves an unsolved murder and participation in a religious cult, Mrs. Caldwell presses Lydia to withhold any further family information.
Physical Description:392 pages ; 18 cm
ISBN:9780062391728
0062391720
Author Notes:Mary Margaret Truman, daughter of President Harry S. Truman, was born on February 17, 1924 in Independence, Missouri. She graduated from George Washington University in 1946. She was also known as Margaret Truman or Margaret Daniel. She was an American singer who later became the successful author of a series of murder mysteries and a number of works on U.S. First Ladies and First Families, including a biography of her father, President Harry S. Truman. The only child of Harry Truman and First Lady Bess Truman; she was called "Margaret" for most of her life.

Truman made her concert debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1947 and her first television appearance on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town. She substituted for Edward R. Murrow on Person to Person, and later had her own radio shows (Weekday in the 1950s and Authors in the News in the 1960s). She was active with organizations such as the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation and the Truman Centennial Committee.

She published her first book, Souvenir: Margaret Truman's Own Story in 1956. She also wrote a series of mysteries set at historic locations in Washington, D. C. She died on January 29, 2008 following a brief illness.

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