Sleight of Hand (Dana Cutler Series)
Phillip Margolin
Language: English
Pages: 384
ISBN: 0062069934
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Private investigator Dana Cutler must take down a cunning psychopath before he can pull off the perfect crime, in Sleight of Hand, a novel of suspense from Phillip Margolin, New York Times bestselling author of Capitol Murder and Supreme Justice.
Charles Benedict – charismatic criminal defense lawyer, amateur illusionist, and professional hit man – has performed his greatest sleight of hand yet: framing a millionaire for the murder of his much younger wife.
When Horace Blair married Carrie, the prosecutor in his DUI trial, he made her sign a prenuptial agreement guaranteeing her twenty million dollars if she remained faithful for the first ten years of marriage. Just one week before their tenth anniversary, Carrie disappears, and Horace is charged with her murder. Desperate to clear his name, the millionaire hires D.C.’s most ruthless defense lawyer – Charles Benedict.
P.I. Dana Cutler is in the Pacific Northwest on the trail of a stolen relic dating from the Ottoman Empire. Hitting a dead end sends her back to Virginia perplexed and disappointed – and straight into the case of Horace and Carrie Blair.
Now Dana must conjure a few tricks of her own to expose Benedict’s plot, before he can work his deadly magic on her...
her glass, and she looked sad. Benedict had always wondered what “The Society Prosecutor” would be like in bed, and he couldn’t pass up a chance to find out. Before he entered the bar, the lawyer took a pillbox out of his pocket and palmed a mild sedative that would make Carrie compliant. Slipping the pill into Carrie’s drink would pose no problem for someone with the lawyer’s skill at sleight of hand. Carrie was leaning forward and staring into a double shot of bourbon. Benedict was certain
embarrassing moment I’ve ever experienced trying that case.” “What happened?” Maguire told Santoro about the cocaine that was mysteriously transformed into fizzing baking soda. “And Charles Benedict was the lawyer?” “I’m certain he switched the cocaine, and Carrie was convinced she knew how.” “Carrie Blair?” “She was my supervisor. The judge had her come down so she could decide whether to dismiss. She was furious. She told me not to blame myself because she knew what happened.” “And what
decision was the possibility that Mr. Blair might be a flight risk. Mr. Blair’s business takes him to all parts of the world, including countries without extradition treaties with the United States. Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Rick Hamada produced evidence that Mr. Blair had homes in many foreign countries and assets overseas that would enable him to live a life of luxury as a fugitive. “Charles Benedict, Mr. Blair’s attorney, said that he planned an immediate appeal of the court’s
Molinari was the smartest criminal I’d ever dealt with. He was definitely smart enough to know he had no future with the Dragons after he ripped them off, and smart enough to know he had to disappear, like a card in one of his tricks.” Chapter Forty-Four Frank Santoro had a friend in Organized Crime in the Department of Justice who owed him a favor. According to Santoro’s friend, Nikolai Orlansky was always accompanied by several bodyguards and his armor-plated car had bulletproof glass.
at the clock on the kitchen stove. It was 4:45 on the East Coast and three hours earlier out west. Dana was fired up, but she knew that she would have to practice patience, because Marty Draper would be too upset to give her a crash course on Asian antiquities if she woke him out of a deep sleep at 1:45 in the morning. Part III The Revenge of the Ottoman Scepter Chapter Forty-Eight Santoro and Robb got out of the elevator and spotted the nurses’ station. A heavyset brunette was on