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Prescription for Murder
E.E. Smith
Alexis J. Smith
Phoenix Books
August 2014
On Sale: August 1, 2014
Featuring: Alexis J. Smith; Harry Hawkins
168 pages ISBN: 0989935639 EAN: 9780989935630 Kindle: B00MCWDL82 e-Book
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Mystery | Mystery Police Procedural
It was announced that Alexis J. Smith, an American private
investigator, had married Detective Inspector Harry
Hawkins
of Scotland Yard that morning on the island of Majorca.
But,
in fact, a mysterious telegram addressed to Lexie and
allegedly signed by her sister Mary, had arrived saying
that
their mother was ill and needed her desperately. Trouble
is,
their mother had been dead for three years. So who sent
the
wire, and why? Someone needed her, that much was clear,
and
Lexie feels she must fly home and find out who it is. Of
course, the wedding is off. Back home in Sacramento, she learns that a U.S.
congressman
from that district has been poisoned, and one of her
friends
is about to be charged with the crime. A second murder, of
the druggist who dispensed the lethal prescription to the
congressman, now points to the Irish Mafia. In the
meantime,
Mary is kidnapped by the Mob and held prisoner while Lexie
is sent to Ireland to find, and bring back, a young woman
who had fled the country to escape the attentions of one
of
the Mob bosses. Her sister's life depends on a successful
mission, but Lexie has double-crossed powerful
organizations
before, and may have to do it again. In the meantime, Harry Hawkins will bend every rule of
Scotland Yard to help her, but will it be enough? Is this
the end, or merely the closing of the circle?
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