Next of Kin — Mignon G. Eberhart

Death of a Senator He was Stuart Channing and he had everything to live for. A former senator, up for a big Cabinet appointment, he had power, influence, and a very beautiful wife. His death behind the locked door of his study mystified the public, the police, and Mady Smith, the lovely young heiress hopelessly in love with "Chan," the senator's handsome younger brother. Mady wonders why Stuart's secretary Nadine has mysteriously disappeared,,, why the grieving widow seems to be making a play for Chan... and whose is the glove found suspiciously close to the senator's body, the glove that the lab boys say recently held a gun. To Mady, Stuart's death looks more like murder than suicide. And as she watches the police investigate, the killer is closely watching her...