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.

"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.

In the 15th novel featuring Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady travels to the Bahamas to prevent the Duke and Duchess of Windsor from turning the island into a German base, a mission complicated by a murder.

Eleanor Roosevelt must walk a fine line between defending the country's interests and offending her guest when Madame Chiang Kai-Shek comes to visit the White House in 1943, but her job becomes much more difficult when a Chinese shoe salesman is found murdered in the Map Room.

It is 1943 and upon the eve of the Trident Conference-a highly classified council attended by FDR, Winston Churchill, and Dwight Eisenhower. When a body is discovered in the Lincoln Bedroom while the conferees are still in session, Eleanor Roosevelt knows that in order to keep the murder a secret from the prying eyes of the press, not to mention foreign agents, she must solve it herself.