Death Before Bedtime

The ambitious Senator Rhodes-whose bid for the presidency is challenged by equally ambitious rivals and threatened by the promiscuity of his beautiful daughter-hires Peter Cutler Sargeant to handle his publicity, but Sargeant is soon concerned more with murder than with politics. In Death Before Bedtime, dashing P. R. man Peter Sargent is invited to the home of a venerable senator to help strategize his imminent run for president. On the night before heѫs to announce, though, the senator is murdered in his bed. No longer needed as a political publicist, Sargent finds himself helping the police find the killer. He deftly navigates an eccentric cast of characters, all of whom are suspects: the rebellious daughter; the sycophantic aide; the grieving widow; and the power-hungry governor with his eye on the senatorѫs job. Somehow, between charming the senatorѫs daughter and glad-handing Washingtonѫs elite, Sargent still manages to methodically put the pieces into place and sees that politics truly is a cut-throat business.