Murder at the Kennedy Center [Paperback]

Margaret Truman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1990

"An exciting romp."
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
During a gala benefit for a Democratic Party hopeful, a young woman dies, the victim of quick and brutal violence. The murder weapon belongs to the candidate, Kenneth Ewald, and his son is the chief suspect. Out of the classroom comes professor Mac Smith to tackle a case that is bad for the senator, but may prove disastrous for the nation....


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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Likely to follow Truman's eight earlier mysteries up the bestseller lists, her ninth opens with a grand performance at the Kennedy Center honoring Senator Ewald, favored to win his party's nomination for president. But hopes dim after the extravaganza when Professor MacKenzie (Mac) Smith finds an Ewald campaign worker, Andrea Feldman, shot dead behind the Center. The senator's son Paul, who has been sexually involved with Andrea, is arrested for the murder, whereupon his wife, Janet, disappears. As a professor of law and Ewald's friend, Mac uses his skills to investigate those in Ewald's orbit. The suspects include the senator's wife, Leslie, his campaign manager, Ed Farmer, and a host of others capable of murder so as to cause a scandal ruinous to the candidate. At last, Mac penetrates the mystery, thickly layered in the complexities of Washington political processes, once again brought vividly to life by Truman's expertise. Literary Guild main selection.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"An exciting romp."
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
During a gala benefit for a Democratic Party hopeful, a young woman dies, the victim of quick and brutal violence. The murder weapon belongs to the candidate, Kenneth Ewald, and his son is the chief suspect. Out of the classroom comes professor Mac Smith to tackle a case that is bad for the senator, but may prove disastrous for the nation....

From the Paperback edition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Crest; 1St Edition edition (July 1990)
• ISBN-10: 9992090898
• ISBN-13: 978-9992090893
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,321,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre but readable, September 13, 2010

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L. Combs "buddagal" (Norfolk, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Murder at the Kennedy Center (Capital Crime Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's fun to compare with current politicians as well!, August 10, 2002

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Charles Lewis (Macon, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Murder at the Kennedy Center (Capital Crime Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

...

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.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Combines murder and political intrique, July 15, 2000

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Patricia Lavins - See all my reviews

This review is from: Murder at the Kennedy Center (Capital Crime Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.