Capacity for Murder (Professor Bradshaw Mysteries) - Hardcover

Pajer, Bernadette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1464201269 ISBN 13: 9781464201264

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Pr, 2013

Synopsis

The Sanatarium offers no cure for murder...

At the dawn of the 20th century, Healing Sands Sanitarium, southwest of Seattle, Washington, sits on the sandy doorstep of the Pacific Ocean. Famed for its restorative rest cures, fermented diets, and Dr. Hornsby’s electrotherapeutics, no one has ever died at Healing Sands. Until now.
When Professor Bradshaw is summoned to investigate, he knows this was no accident, but his only clue to foul play is as insubstantial as smoke—to anyone other than an electrical engineer. Suspects in this isolated location are limited to a handful whose lives—and lies—must be exhumed and examined.
A sinister tale emerges as deep undercurrents turn personal, provoking Bradshaw to make a decision about the woman he loves. And then an everyday object provides the key, alerting Bradshaw that one among them is a walking dead man, and another possesses the capacity for murder.

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Review:

"President McKinley's assassination casts a pall over Pajer's somewhat unfocused second mystery featuring electrical engineering professor Benjamin Bradshaw (after 2011's A Spark of Death). In September 1901, Bradshaw is working on an entry for a competition, developing a telephonic system to relay music from the Seattle Grand Theater to area homes, until the discovery of an abandoned gypsy peddler's horse and wagon in the lane behind his house. Both the peddler, who sold patent medicines, and his 10-year-old daughter are missing. Soon Bradshaw is investigating not only the girl's possible kidnapping but her father's murder as well as the source of dangerously adulterated patent medicines. A surfeit of story lines muddles the main action, but Bradshaw will win readers over as he puts his own life and his friendship with Det. James O'Brien in jeopardy in pursuit of the truth."--PW about "Fatal Induction" "A college professor enters a contest and dabbles in a murder investigation. Benjamin Bradshaw, Professor of Electrical Engineering, has moved to Seattle at the dawn of the 20th century to shield his young son from the stigma of his mother's suicide. Before the semester begins, Bradshaw, who's entered a contest for a telephonic system that will deliver music from the Seattle Grand Theater directly to people's homes, is caught up in a mystery. Why is an abandoned gypsy peddler's cart in the lane behind his house, and where are the father and child who were living in it? Soon enough, the body of the father is found nearby and Bradshaw learns that his own son has been harboring the little girl, a possible witness to murder who runs away when Bradshaw sees her. Despite warnings from his old friend Detective O'Brien to keep out of the case, Bradshaw follows a trail into dangerous areas of town full of bars, brothels and assorted criminals. The dead peddler, who was not in fact a gypsy, had sold a tonic with dangerous ingredients that involve the professor in a f

About the Author:

Bernadette Pajer is the author of the Professor Bradshaw Mystery series which include A SPARK OF DEATH, FATAL INDUCTION, and CAPACITY FOR MURDER. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband and son, and when not researching or writing, enjoys supporting Reading Local and Literacy in the Northwest with the Seattle7Writers.org.

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Pr
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1464201269
• ISBN 13: 9781464201264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256