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Cargando... Murder in the White House (1980)por Margaret Truman
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. When the Secretary of State is murdered in the West Wing of the White House, the President appoints Ron Fairbanks, special counsel to the president, to investigate. This was an interesting mystery, full of the political intrigue of Washington, DC. The book was published in 1980, and there were times that something did strike me as a bit dated, but the story itself holds up. Ron is an interesting main protagonist and Truman has real experience with the ins and outs of the Washington political scene (at least during the time when she wrote the book). It looks like the next book in the series has a different main investigator so I am interested to see if there is any link in the series beyond Washington politics. ( ) It was fun reading a novel interspersed with so much DC resident & neighborhood references, especially since they were used correctly. It's a DC mentality which picks out minutiae and lose sight of the novel as a whole. It's even worse for movies & TV shows when the background is moving opposite of their destination! I checked this book out of the library when I saw the series was optioned for a tv series. I didn’t realize it was first published 40+ years ago until I was reading it and the characters are out to dinner at a Japanese restaurant and definitions for sushi and sake are given… probably not needed in more current writing. The book wasn’t riveting but short and entertaining enough. I was pretty sure I knew who the killer was early on but guessed the wrong motive. Quite the Lifetime movie drama at the end. I read this many years ago. I didn't think it was great then and I don't think it's great now, but it's certainly readable and Truman is competent. The basic plot: the secretary of state is found murdered in the White House. An investigation by the President's Special Counsel, Ron Fairbanks, a bright young man, reveals some darkness in the Secretary of State's handling of his job. There are different reasons he might have been murdered, but there is a limiting factor: only a small number of persons had access to that floor of the White House at the time he was killed. Ron investigates so thoroughly that he is himself threatened. But why? By whom? He has his suspicions but proof is harder to find. I found Truman's use of ellipses a bit profligate. Every chapter has several paragraphs ending in three dots. As if she couldn't express certainty, but rather a kind of wandering mind. I think she should have just ended those sentences with a period and been done with it. I also felt that the story was short on nail-biting drama. Much of the story was telegraphed so there were few surprises, and times of uncertainty were short-lived. I think real life tends to be this way so I didn't mind it too much but others may. I wondered if an investigation of this type could have been handled in this way: by appointment of an investigator who was a lawyer, not a detective. Not sure how that works, although many of us have lived through years of special prosecutors who interviewed those involved, so maybe it does work that way. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Fiction.
Mystery.
Thriller.
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