Speak Out Before You Die

"Speak Out Before You Die", the second in the "Double V Mysteries" series reunites wealthy Juliet Van Allen and ex-con Elmer Vartanian on New Year's Eve, 1949. Guests are gathered in snowbound mansion for the wedding of Juliet's widowed father to an elegant younger woman just after the clock strikes midnight. When Juliet finds what appears to be a threatening note directed at her father, she calls Elmer to pose as a hired servant to help ferret out the danger...but midnight is approaching and time is running out. There may be murder as the old year dies.