Murder in High Place

Ben Safford #2

by R.B. Dominic

A crime club selection.

Genres: Mystery

188 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Aka Emma Lathen

Reviews

[Sandi]

Congressman Ben Safford gets caught up in an international incident that leads to murder when one of his constituents, a young woman who tends to act before she thinks, gets herself kicked out of a South American country. Not nearly as good as the first book in the series.

[George]

Another in the low key Ohio Congressman Ben Safford mystery series. A young woman on a foundation sponsored anthropological research study in a fictitious South American country is expelled from the country and raises a huge fuss about it in Washington D.C. As a constituent of Safford, she seeks his help in proving she was falsely accused thus wrongly expelled. She is head strong and a major aggravation who doesn't think through what she is doing so quickly finds herself in the middle of a potential international crisis she helped created and has dragged Safford into. To end the public relations problems that might endanger his re-election, Safford helps the police solve the mystery.

[Susan]

Normally, the death of a foreign aid bureaucrat wouldn't impinge on Ohio congressman Ben Safford's life. But he was to meet with the bureaucrat and others on behalf of one of his constituents, blonde, beautiful, intelligent and impossible Karen Jenks. Karen, a Sears scholar, was ejected from a Latin American country after a trumped-up scandal, and wants justice now. But a lot of interests are involved, and the problem has soon grown to include the country's embassy, the State Department, and the Washington police.

[Kathy]

Congressman Ben Safford once again gets tangled up in a politcal murder in Washington. This one involves a young constituent of his, Karen Jenks, who is unceremoniously kicked out of the small South American country of Nuevador where she has been doing research for her Masters thesis. She swears she's innocent (didn't dance nearly naked in the cathedral during a ceremony) and is out to get revenge on all the Washington offices she holds responsible. Lots of twists and turns but Safford evetually solves it all.

[Robert]

Don’t even remember how this booked from the 70s ended up on my shelf but it was there and for some reason only now I picked it up and read it through. I gather it’s part of a mystery series “ starring “ a Congressman from Ohio who has a way of getting involved in murders and solves them. I won’t be seeking out any more of these titles.

[Helen Fleischer]

good DC story, slightly dated