Dead and Gone Author:Mary Kittredge When writer Charlotte Kent began researching her latest self-help book, Tricks for the Sick! at a renowned East Coast medical center, she hadn't planned a chapter on tips to avoid murder. — A slimy, unprincipled medical student is dead. His wife, a friend of Charlotte's, is the prime suspect. But Charlotte, with her stubborn yen ... more »for justice and an unerring nose for the messiest sort of problems, believes otherwise.
Problem one: the body has disappeared from the morgue. Problem two: it seems the victim had his unscrupulous fingers in some heavy-duty blackmail. Three: her chief suspect is the medical center's richest, most-respected doctor.
For this hustling, hump-it-to-the-deadline free-lance writer, the final chapter was going to be the killer.« less