Margery Flax

Lured by a beautiful seductress, U.S. Senate candidate Warren Burkett finds himself alone and naked in a stranger's home from which a priceless painting is missing.  When the woman turns up dead, attorney Jack MacTaggart must unravel the deepening mystery, and prevent a killer from going to Washington.

Thirteen-year-old Lottie Garrett spends a harrowing year on the road with her father's murderer in this Depression-era saga based on a true crime.

When a young lawyer is assigned to handle an insurance claim on behalf of a wealthy Pasadena socialite, he soon finds himself trapped in a spiraling web of blackmail and murder in which he becomes both the prime suspect and the next likely victim.