MURDER IN THE HOUSE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Congressman Paul Latham is about to be named secretary of
state but dies beneath the Statue of Freedom before he can accept
the honor. When his body is found, a 9-mm pistol clutched in his
hand (is it suicide or murder?), rumors begin to fly, targeting
Latham as no better than Warren Brazier’s lackey and threatening
the credibility of the administration’s foreign policy. Brazier, a
wealthy industrialist and potent political force (à la Ross Perot),
is conducting questionable business with the Russian government (à
la George Soros’s evil twin), and nothing will stop him in his
quest to snap up formerly state-owned industries at bargain
prices–certainly not a trivial consideration such as trade
legislation pending in the House Foreign Relations Committee.

　　He died beneath the Statue of Freedom, clutching a 9-mm pistol
in his hand. But as dawn rose, the politician would die again–in a
hail of rumor and character assassination.
　　Now one man suspects the shattering truth: that the congressman’s
suicide was a carefully planned murder. In the heart of the free
world, a furious struggle begins: to reclaim a man’s innocence,
expose a woman’s lie, and stop a chilling conspiracy of murder that
reaches halfway around the world. . . .

　　Margaret Truman has won faithful readers with her works of
biography and fiction, particularly her ongoing series of Capital
Crimes mysteries. Her novels let us into the corridors of power and
privilege, poverty and pageantry in the nation’s capital.
　　She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Clifton Daniel,
distinguished journalist, author, and editor. They have four sons
and two grandchildren.