Murder on Capitol Hill by Margaret Truman

Author:Margaret Truman [Truman, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7953-4493-0
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2015-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

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It was the early morning hours and the Quentin Hughes show was in progress. Christa Jones noted that her boss was edgier than usual in his interview with his guest.

It had been a trying day, although no worse than many other days of the recent past. She’d been staying with Hughes in his Watergate apartment for a week, returning home during the day only to feed her cats and to get a change of clothing. The beginning of the week with Hughes had started smoothly enough; in fact, the first few days found Hughes in as good a mood as she could remember. Of course, in the early phase of their relationship he was often relaxed and pleasant to be with. Those early days in Des Moines provided Christa with one of the most pleasant memories of her life…

Her father had deserted the family when Christa was an infant. Her mother, an industrious, uneducated woman, had done what she could to provide a home for Christa and her two younger sisters, but the woman eventually buckled under the pressure. After six months in a state institution, she’d returned home, packed a few belongings and left Des Moines with a truck driver she’d met only days earlier. Because there were no relatives, the three Jones girls were placed in a state home.

Memory of life in that home could reduce Christa to immediate tears and terror. She’d found a job and taken courses at night at a local community college; she’d always been an avid reader and found herself immersed in her classes, particularly those dealing with communications.

Hughes, who’d become the most successful and well-known broadcaster in Des Moines, lectured one evening at the college. It was, as they say, love at first sight for the orphaned Christa. She was enthralled with his sureness, his ability to spellbind anyone within listening distance, his tall good looks. When they’d talked after class, his slate gray eyes seemed to burn right through her. He was power and authority.

Until Quentin Hughes, Christa had never been particularly interested in how she looked or in what she wore. But after that night at the college she found herself making a conscious effort to look better. She knew even then that she was attractive, tall and fair-skinned, with a figure full enough to encourage appreciative stares from men on the street. Now she did what she could to enhance her attributes, then went to the radio station where Hughes was employed, asked to see him, and to her surprise was immediately ushered into his office.

He hired her on the spot to replace a young woman who’d been his producer and was leaving to marry someone from another city. The pay wasn’t much, but that didn’t matter to Christa. The job created many perks for her, to say nothing of the pride she felt at being inside the exciting world of radio and television. And, of course, there was the fringe benefit of being close to Quentin Hughes on a daily basis.

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