My favorites are Mac Smith, a law professor at Georgetown and his wife, Annabel Reed, an attorney turned gallery owner. They are incredibly adept at finding and solving murders. They even become involved in a murder case when they marry at the National Cathedral.
I visited Washington last May as a volunteer parent accompanying my daughter's fifth grade class. We were allowed to stop briefly at the National Cathedral and I asked one of the guides where the room was, where the murder was committed in Margaret Truman's book Murder at the National Cathedral. She directed me to the chapel and told me that it was a question that she was often asked. Unfortunately, we did not have enough time for me to take a look. I am hoping to go back DC with my family next summer and take a real look at it and the other Washington sites which Margaret Truman so brilliantly brings to life.
I have read most of Margaret Truman's books and have enjoyed them all, but I must say that I enjoy the Mac and Annabel books the most. She is a truly gifted writer. I could not find an Internet site for her and I was disappointed. I would have liked to see an ongoing site about her work.
Elliott Roosevelt, the fourth, but third living of six total children (all five of the children raised by Franklin and Eleanor are now deceased) of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, has written a delightful series of mysteries starring his mother, Eleanor, as the slueth. Roosevelt died in 1990 and it is reported that he left several manuscripts to be published after his death. There has been some dissension among the ranks that these posthumous books may be written by a ghost writer. If that is so, this person has managed to capture Roosevelt's style in a brilliant manner.
Two of the posthumously published books feature another character, Blackjack Endicott. The two books, The President's Man and New Deal for Death, are two that I have not read and until I did the research for this article, I didn't realize that Roosevelt had written another character. I will be reading these shortly.
