When Secrets Die

Private detective Lena Padget is hired by Emma Marsden, a grieving mother who has accused the Clay's Mill Children's Clinic of keeping the heart of her young son, Ned, who had died less than a year ago, a medical establishment that has in turn charged that the boy had died because Emma had poisoned his as part of Munchausen by Proxy bid for attention. Original. 25,000 first printing.