Murder in the Blue Room
About this book
In 1942 during a secret visit from Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, President Roosevelt, the First Lady and U.S.S.R. Ambassador Litvinov are dining at the White House when a killer strikes. A young, pretty Press Office secretary is found bludgeoned to death in the Blue Room of the White House. Eleanor Roosevelt investigates, questioning a house full of visiting Russian diplomats and the young married "men about town" (Representative Everett Dirksen, Nelson Rockefeller, and others) who spent evenings "in "hot-sheet hotels."
Subjects
Presidents' spousesWomen detectivesWhite House (Washington, D.C.)FictionWashington (d.c.), fictionRoosevelt, eleanor, 1884-1962, fictionFiction, mystery & detective, women sleuthsFiction, historical, general