title: Murder in the Smithsonian: A Capital Crimes Novel
author:  Margaret Truman 
description: "Nonstop action and a brillianly evocative setting make this another winner!"<BR>BOOKLIST<BR>Dr. Lewis Tunney, a brilliant historian who had stumbled onto an international art scandal, was brutally murdered in front of two hundred guests at an elegant party at the Smithsonian. When his fiancee, Heather McBea, flies in from Scotland to learn more, Mac Hanrahan, the captain in charge of the case, takes a heated interest in her. And when two more murders are committed, Hanrahan has reason to worry about Heather's sleuthing. But Heather is stubborn and insists on going her own way--right into the arms of a killer....
zlib_text: **More praise for Margaret Truman and her Capital Crimes mysteries**
  
  “Truman has settled firmly into a career of writing murder mysteries, all
  evoking brilliantly the Washington she knows so well.”
  
  — _The Houston Post_
  
  “She’s up-to-the-minute. And she’s good.”
  
  —Associated Press
  
  “Truman ‘knows the forks’ in the nation’s capital and how to pitchfork her
  readers into a web of murder and detection.”
  
  — _The Christian Science Monitor_
  
  “An author whose inside knowledge of Washington is matched by her ability to
  spin a compelling mystery plot.”
  
  — _Crime Times_
  
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  While set in a real place, this book is a work of fiction. The characters and
  events are products of the author’s imagination and should not be construed as
  real. Any resemblance to actual people is unintended. In the few instances
  where well-known or real names are used, the related characters, incidents, or
  dialogues are entirely fictional and are not intended to depict any actual
  people or events.