Calculated Risk — Rae Foley

Guy Harding, a successful public relations man, was killed late one night in an automobile accident; his beautiful wife, Sara, injured. Young Sara Harding woke up in a hospital bed to discover that her life was shattered. The car explosion that had thrown her into a state of shock had killed her handsome, wealthy husband, and left her surrounded by enemies eager to blame his death on her. The "accident" was soon revealed to be murder, plotted and carried out with diabolical cleverness. Paul Smith, the brilliant columnist of the weekly Sentinel, was the first logical suspect. If Harding had lived, Smith would have been sued for libel, his career ruined. The young journalist had no alibi for the time of the crime, and there had been damaging gossip about his violent temper.

Hiram Potter, that most urbane connoisseur of crime,decided that some questions should be answered before he committed himself to a decision about Smith's guilt. It seemed curious, for example, that Sara Harding's first husband had also died in an auto acciddent. But many had hated Harding, which of them had wreaked a terrible vengeance? Who was now shadowing his widow's life with deadly danger? And above all, could Sara risk trusting the attractive, attentive stanger who was either her only hope of safety -- or the agent of her doom...?