Murder Observed — Eleanor Boylan

Anna Pitman's death looks like a tragic accident. A May rainstorm slicks New York City's streets, and she slips to her death beneath a moving car.

But to Clara Gamadge, helplessly watching her friend's terrible end, it's murder. She even recognizes the car's driver--handsome "Dolly" Moltke, a young Austrian who is a close friend of the beautiful German student Elisabeth Bauer, who has recently become the inseparable companion of Anna's former husband. Clara feels in her bones that not even the longest arm of coincidence can embrace all that. But it takes a game of bridge, a missing letter, and an old photograph to prove how dangerously right she is....