Emergency Murder Guide

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EMERGENCY MURDER GUIDE Author’s life Janet McGiffin lives in Athens, Greece. She writes mystery novels, travel articles and grant proposals for small non-profit organizations (NGO) based around the Mediterranean. Currently she is public-education publicist for a 12-country European Union cultural grant involving conservation of ancient artifacts made of gold, silver, or copper. Characters -Dr. Maxine Cassidy: She was a doctor at Mercy Hospital Emergency Room. She was a small, slim woman with short brown curly hair, as said on page 6. She was working in the ER when a woman dressed in a black miniskirt and a wig entered; she recognized that woman as Nanette Myer. Page 7. She received a phone call in the middle of the night from Hank (Nanette’s husband) and she told him about his wife’s death; and thought it was a good idea to order an autopsy. Page 10. It is said that 6 months prior the events of the story, she had been married, and working at Marquette University, and it was Hank who suggested her to ‘take a break’ and work at the ER. Page 11. After Nanette’s burial, Maxine went to a café with Stanley because she was worried about the unusual way Nanette died, and wanted ‘advice’. Page 15. And after talking to him, they concluded she might had been poisoned, and the best way to get out of doubt, was by making another blood test. Page 16. When the blood results were back, the showed that Nanette was poisoned with Tetrodotoxin, a drug she used at her research, so detective Grabowski was called to question her. Page 20. She called Charlie and told him she needed to see him in order to find out how the Tetrodotoxin was taken out of their laboratory. Page 23. She went to Marquette University to talk to Virginia; page 34. They used to play tennis at midnight, and got worried over Virginia’s rude attitude towards Charlie; page36. She told Grabowski that
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