- When Jessica agrees to help preserve a historic brownstone, she winds up trying to clear her editor of the murder of an opposing developer.
- Jessica helps friend Margaret Johnson and preservation committee president Carol Collins fight a New York development company. The project would cause a historical building, where Ernest Hemingway once had an apartment, to be torn down. Nolan Walsh holds out with his pub's lease. He even throws developer Eugene Gillrich out after violent promises and threats are made in public. Eugene and his wife Lee are desperate to save the project, while his brother and partner Walter wants to consider an alternate site. Eugene secretly romances Carol Collins to have her drop the petition. Then Walter is found shot dead at Eugene's desk and, presumably, Eugene was the target. NYPD Lieutenant Artie Gelber and Detective Henderson examine and arrest Margaret after finding her fingerprints in the office. Jessica gives her an alibi, though not foolproof, and finds evidence Walter's body was moved, so he was the intended victim. Jessica notices Carol ordered her usual drink at Nolan's pub, so she probably knew Eugene in advance, unlike her claim. Improbable mail gives Jessica a clue the 87-year-old is deceased. Her beneficiary, a nurse, wanted to keep the apartment and inspires Jessica about a parking matter, the key to the murder plot.—KGF Vissers
- In New York City, Jessica is asked by her friend Carol Collins to help them save three old brownstones that are scheduled to be razed to make way for a high-rise condo. There is some historical significance to the site as Ernest Hemingway, among others, lived there. The site is owned by brothers Eugene and Walter Gillrich, with Eugene the more aggressive of the two as far as the redevelopment goes. Two of the three buildings are now vacant with only one tenant left in the third building, an old woman that no one has seen for several years. Walter is more sympathetic to keeping the historic site and when he is found murdered, sitting at his brother's office desk, the police aren't sure who the intended victim was. Parking regulations provide Jessica with the vital clue needed to identify the murderer.—garykmcd
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