Murder in the Smithsonian: A Novel

Margaret Truman

Arbor House, 1983 - Fiction - 298 pages

"Nonstop action and a brillianly evocative setting make this another winner!" BOOKLIST 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 and insists on going her own way--right into the arms of a killer....

Contents

• Section 1: 7
• Section 2: 10
• Section 3: 20

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Murder in the Smithsonian: A Novel; Book 4 of Capital crimes series, Margaret Truman
• Author: Margaret Truman
• Publisher: Arbor House, 1983
• ISBN: 0877954755, 9780877954750
• Length: 298 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / City Life; Fiction / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General