title: Murder in the Presidio: A Peyton Brooks' Mystery
author:  ML Hamilton 
description: ML Hamilton has been teaching high school English and journalism in Central California for the last 20 years. Teaching students to appreciate literature has made her career rewarding; however, she always dreamed of publishing her own novel. In 2010, the dream came true. Her first novel, Emerald, was published by Wild Wolf Publishing. The sequel to Emerald, The Heirs of Eldon, followed the next year. In the summer of 2011, she published her first contemporary fiction, Ravensong, and Murder on Potrero Hill is her first foray into the murder mystery genre. Her third fantasy was released in August 2012 and the second Peyton Brooks' Mystery soon followed. In addition to teaching and writing, she has three sons, three dogs, and two cats. If she isnt writing, you can find her at a band concert or a baseball game. Visit ML Hamilton at her website: www.authormlhamilton.com.
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  # The Frame Up
  
  
  ## Richard Harding Davis
  
  
  
  
  
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  When the voice over the telephone promised to name the man who
  
  
  killed Hermann Banf, District Attorney Wharton was up- town
  
  
  lunching at Delmonico's. This was contrary to his custom and a
  
  
  concession to Hamilton Cutler, his distinguished brother-in-law.
  
  
  That gentleman was interested in a State constabulary bill and had
  
  
  asked State Senator Bissell to father it. He had suggested to the
  
  
  senator that, in the legal points involved in the bill, his
  
  
  brother-in-law would undoubtedly be charmed to advise him. So that
  
  
  morning, to talk it over, Bissell had come from Albany and, as he
  
  
  was forced to return the same afternoon, had asked Wharton to lunch
  
  
  with him up-town near the station.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  That in public life there breathed a man with soul so dead who,
  
  
  were he offered a chance to serve Hamilton Cutler, would not jump
  
  
  at the chance was outside the experience of the cou