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The wealthy Wainwrights become enmeshed when they are subject to strange visitations, a wounded man is found on their premises, another man is murdered—and traced to their swimming pool. Young Pat Abbott, Widow Wainwright’s secretary-companion, tells the story, and reveals her growing love for Tony, son of Mrs. Wainwright’s first marriage, whose life is ruined by a beastly wife whose arrival introduces further complications. Additional murders and threats of murder—and eventually the apprehensio
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Such a fun trip back in time to the world contained within the Cloisters during the 1930s when “murder was a man’s business” and everyone smoked indoors and out and brandy cured everything, especially a woman’s hysterics. But our intrepid heroine Pat Abbott, Secretary to to the wealthy widow Maud Wainwright, is at the center of a complex and creative whodunnit that will keep you intrigued until the very end where all the questions have answers and the romance is finally allowed. “The Great Mista
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