Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries

It's 1939 and a young White House staffer, congressman's son Philip Garber, has been found dead in the apartment of Pamela Rush-Hodgeborne, one of the First Lady's secretaries. The obvious suspect: English-born Pamela, who mixed lover Philip a fatal old-fashioned. (Cyanide in the bitters.) But Eleanor is sure that Pamela is innocent - despite suggestions that Pamela and Philip pulled off a diamond heist together back in England.

While vacationing in South Carolina, Mrs. Roosevelt meets several Hollywood stars who all become suspects when a movie producer is found dead in his bedroom.

"A Thomas Dunne book." A blackmailer is found dead in the White House rose garden and Mrs. Roosevelt soon finds that many men had a motive to kill this society matron.

When a shady Russian envoy traveling to the U.S. is murdered and a stash of jewels owned by White Russians is missing, Eleanor must assess the motives of privileged passengers, including a Russian ballerina emigree, and such real-life characters as Charles Lindbergh, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Benny, Henry Luce, Josephine Baker and a young John F. Kennedy.