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.

When a pretty, young Press Office secretary is bludgeoned to death in the Blue Room of the White House, Eleanor Roosevelt begins to investigate, questioning a house full of visiting Russian diplomats. Reprint. NYT. AB.

First lady Eleanor Roosevelt investigates the murder of an official of the Federal Reserve, for which his mistress was arrested. Eleanor, who knows the woman, is convinced she is innocent and instead suspects a mob connection.

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.

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.

Just after the President and First Lady settle into the White House in 1933, the body of a White House police officer is found at the foot of the President's bedroom door, and Eleanor Roosevelt feels it is her responsibility to solve the case without drawing the public's attention.