Murder in the Blue RoomIn 1942 during a secret visit from Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, President Roosevelt, the First Lady and U.S.S.R. Ambassador Litvinov are dining at the White House when a killer strikes. A young, pretty Press Office secretary is found bludgeoned to death in the Blue Room of the White House. Eleanor Roosevelt investigates, questioning a house full of visiting Russian diplomats and the young married "men about town" (Representative Everett Dirksen, Nelson Rockefeller, and others) who spent evenings "in "hot-sheet hotels." |
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