Capacity for Murder: A Professor Bradshaw Mystery (Professor Bradshaw Mysteries)

Bernadette Pajer

ISBN 10: 147087993X ISBN 13: 9781470879938

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2013

Synopsis

In the early years of the twentieth century, restorative waters are a popular health draw for many. Healing Sands Sanitarium, northwest of Hoquiam, Washington, is located on the sandy edge of the Pacific Ocean and is famous for its restorative rest cure, fermented diets, and Dr. Hornsby's electrotherapeutics. No one has ever died at Healing Sands -- until now.

When Benjamin Bradshaw, a professor at the University of Washington and a specialist in electricity, is summoned to investigate, he immediately knows that this death was no accident. The only clue to foul play is an obvious one to him but will seem as insubstantial as smoke to anyone other than an electrical engineer. Suspects 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 that another possesses the capacity for murder.

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About the Author:

Bernadette Pajer is the author of the Professor Bradshaw Mystery serieswhich include A SPARK OF DEATH, FATAL INDUCTION, and CAPACITY FORMURDER. Kindle editions of A SPARK OF DEATH and PROFESSOR BRADSHAWMYSTERIES: BOOKS 1- 4 are now available. Pajer is also the author of THE FIRST TIME, a time-travel romance. She lives in the Seattle area withher husband and son, and when not researching or writing, enjoyssupporting Reading Local and Literacy in the Northwest with theSeattle7Writers.org.

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 this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 147087993X
• ISBN 13: 9781470879938
• Binding: Audio CD