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Henry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly -- a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. His new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team of sleuths -- and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occurring among their friends in political high society. With cases ranging from a crime on the presidential yacht to a mysterious murder implicating the former secretary of state, there is never a dull moment! With her wit and gift for characterization, the creator of the popular Alvirah and Willy stories brings us another marvelously endearing sleuthing duo, destined to return again and again.… (more)
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The first crime involves a congressman friend of theirs who is being charged of a crime he can’t recall. While they race to save their friend they learn more than they want to about the killer.
In the second crime Sunday has been kidnapped and Henry is forced to back to the White House and race the clock to rescue his beloved wife, before her time is up.
The next story initials a yacht named the Colombia that Henry and his bride purchase through an auction over bidding Angelica De Rio who has papers hidden on the yacht talking about some evil things she had done to her spouse.
In the last mystery a couple goes on a honeymoon and comes home to find their son Jacques has been kidnapped. They are informed not to alert the police. Henry and Sunday stumble upon the boy while trimming their tree for Christmas. The kidnappers have lost their claim to the boy when a car accident sends the boy running as far from them as possible.
I think these stories are great they give you a glimpse of what can happen outside politics.
In the first story his close friends has been framed for murder
The second Sunday her self is kidnapped and almost killed by the brother of a man she put in jail , when she was a public defender. Henry and crew find her and save her.
The next one is when Henry buys a yacht that his family had owned and lent to the presidents of the US for years until a name went missing on it one night , that man was the Prime Minster of Costa Barria Garcia del Rio... they take the yacht to Boca Roton FL for a weekend , and then were going to have it all redone so they could lent it out again.. finally the missing piece to the mans death was found and his murder put to justice.
The last story in this book is about Christmas and a little boy who shows up on their lawn 2 days before Christmas.. they keep him til Christmas eve late at night when his parents find out he was kidnapped then lost and where he is.
A great book