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Murder at the Kennedy Center (Capital Crime Mysteries)

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I had found Margaret Truman's other books plodding in both narrative and dialogue; but this one, starring the "Mac and Annie" romantic detecting team, was pretty readable, and I will seek out others featuring these characters.

This book was published in 1989; and I have to say that it was initially disconcerting, reading a book in which cell-phones & the Internet had yet to be invented -- and Sammy Davis, Jr and the Soviet Union are both still alive.

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Margaret Truman has woven together her knowledge of Washington
politics and a great mystery in "Murder at the Kennedy Center."
And she sure knows how to interweave a complicated plot. As soon
as Mac agrees to take a ace, he runs into countless problems:
Senator Ewald, it seems, has not be as...
his political supporters might believe; ...Soon a South American dictator and a
conservative evangelist muddy the waters even more.

As Mac delves deeper into the mystery, he learns more about his
friend than perhaps he had wanted to know. In a short period of
time, he has a long list of suspects!

Truman has done an excellent job of creating vivid characters and
developing a plot that will keep you alert. She has also managed
to mirror a number of contemporary politicians and headlines in
this novel; I think you'll have fun deciding who is being
modeled.

The description of a Democratic party gala is described with the intimacy of one who has actually attended such an affair. It is for this reason that the reader trusts the author in the other relevant portions of the plotting and structure of this well-told tale of mayhem in our nation's capital. This is a fine addition to the author's stunning series of mystery novels using the backdrop of the great institutions of Washington, D. C.

I've just discovered Margaret Truman and am enjoying every minute of her writing. Not only does she write a good mystery but she entices me with her detailed descriptions of life in Washington D.C. Mac and Annabelle are becoming "good friends". I'm looking forward to reading the next in the series.

I was bored to tears by this book. A lack of creativity and poor writing make this a book I would recommend you miss!

This is a story about not only murder, but also a lesson in the finer art of opera and music. A young aspiring talent in the opera world is found slain during a rehersal and the reader is off on a journey not only of trying to solve the crime, but of learning how the opera world and even terrorism works. There's a lot of different sub plots in this work, but they all return back to the main problem of finding a murderer. The reader is lead through an adventure concerning some rare music pages that are stolen which caused a previous murder, as well as an adventure link with terrorism and a plot to kill high level politicians that results in a senator being killed and an attempt on the life of the U.S. President and the first lady. The end of the book explains how and why the original murder was undertaken, but the real shock was what happened to the valuable music pages. For this reason I found the book to have too many plots and sub plots. And the ending, although a real suprise, again was not related to the real start point of the book, a murder at the Kennedy Center. A good book to read, but the reader needs to pay attention to the various scenes laid out.

Yeah, I still have the same old gripes about Truman's overall writing style (or lack thereof), but they've lessened in intensity now that she's found in Mac Smith a decent sleuth. Too bad I know it won't last. (See my review for Murder in the Pentagon.)

This was another of Truman's great books!! The action of was continues though out the whole book and it was a wonderful book!