Elliott Roosevelt

#2

1999

Sargeant Peavy, the newest member of the Federal Reserve Board, led a completely scrupulous life; if you don't count a string of extramarital affairs stretching back as far as anyone - including his wife - can remember. When he's found naked and dead in his Georgetown townhouse, with and ear-ring owned by his latest mistress on the floor next to him, the D.C. police force is convinced they have an easy arrest and conviction before them. Which probably would have been the case if the mistress, Jessica Dee, hadn't been a friend of Mrs Roosevelt's and an FDR informant. As the intrepid Mrs Roosevelt investigates the circumstances surrounding Peavy's murder, the reader is treated to all the historical recreation and satisfying storytelling that have become hallmarks of this series.

#3

1997

Mixing real people with fictional characters, Roosevelt assembles an impressive supporting cast for the latest mystery to feature his mother as amateur sleuth. Talullah Bankhead, Joan Crawford, Darryl F. Zanuck and Humphrey Bogart are spending a week at Hobcaw Barony, the estate of Bernard Baruch. Eleanor arrives a few days before the President is due and just before another guest, a nasty movie producer, is killed in an explosion. To catch the murderer and keep the press at bay, the President's plans are not altered and Eleanor goes into high gear to uncover motives and access before he arrives.