by Cuyler Overholt
This story takes place in New York in the early 1900's. The main character Dr. Genevieve Summerland, is a recently graduated Dr. who hopes to specialize in Psychiatry, against her father's better judgement.
She meets with some women in a group setting in a Church basement and delivers her "lecture". The attendees don't seem to impressed. One of the patients tells her that she had a child out of wedlock and a doctor took the baby away from her. Genevieve assures her that she has a right to know what happened to the child and that she was wronged by the doctor. She encourages the woman to contact the doctor.
The next morning she is walking down the street and comes upon a murder scene. She finds that the patient who had had her baby taken away from her has been arrested for the murder of a doctor. Genevieve is convinced that despite the evidence her patient did not do it. She is frustrated that the police are so convinced they have found the right person. Genevieve enlists the help of a man who used to work for her family and who seems to have contacts in the legal and not so legal world. As part of the story we find that the Doctor who was murdered has implied that the woman had Huntington's. Genevieve finds the woman she thinks is the daughter of her patient and who was adopted into a wealthy family. She sees evidence of the disease in the "daughter" but none in her patient.
They discover that the patient has multiple personalities and was raped and impregnated by her father and that it was her mother who murdered the Doctor and his daughter.
This was an okay mystery, a bit to wordy and times and not much character development.
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