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I didn't know any Richie, but I can't say I was surprised when the guy on the subway turned up at Susan's apartment a day or so later, and let himself in. He wasn't a bad kid. I mean, he came to Manhattan to take management trainee job with RCA, but nobody knew him, and he did have a key.   Detective Honey looked at her attentively, but didn't write anything down. In the years Alice had lived in New York, she had never actually spoken to a New York cop. Although reassured by his wide, bland face, she wondered if he was on the take. She coughed into her hand, which was trembling, and went on as if with a psychiatrist. It took a long time for the implications of that to faze Denny and Susan, and by that time everyone had a key. Then they talked about changing the locks, but it was a lot of money and trouble, and anyway, Denny was afraid of seeming hostile. Detective Honey grimaced and shook his head. Alice said, I thought it was stupid, too.   You were watering the plants, Miss Ellis?   Mrs. I was supposed to. I told Susan I would come every three days, even if the, uh, men were around, because she didn't really trust them to keep everything watered. Maybe you saw that she has beautiful plants. Thinking of the plants made her think of Denny and Craig. She winced. Detective Honey said, And Miss Gabriel is where? In the Adirondacks. She should be home tomorrow night.   In the Adirondacks in May?   She usually goes at odd times of the year. There's a cabin she rents, and it's too expensive in the summer.   Have you accompanied her to this cabin?   No one has. It doesn't even have a telephone, and you have to hike in about three miles. Anyway, she hasn't ever really invited anyone. I think she likes the break.   The break?   Alice sat up straighter. Well, getting away. You know. She's a very busy person, dealing with customers all day, and-- Her voice faded.   Detective Honey touched the tip of his pencil to the notepad, then suggested, So you were there on Wednesday, and came back today? All of his questions were mere suggestions posed with studied casualness that convinced Alice she was a suspect and make her feel craven. I was there on Tuesday, actually, but I couldn't get back till today. She cleared her throat. I left my place about ten or ten-fifteen. I walked down Broadway, and bought a paper at Seventy-ninth Street. The vendor knows me. It's ten blocks from my place, so it must have taken me about twenty minutes. I didn't see anyone. I let myself in, because there isn't a doorman, and went up the elevator to the sixth floor. I've been in that building almost more than I've been in my own, so I'm very familiar with everything about it. Nothing was different. I mean, out of place or anything. Honey drew his left hand across the paper and wrote behind it. I opened the door. Everything was very neat. With the light streaming in, arrowing among the spikes of succulents, the ivy vines, the heavy, glossy leaves of avocados, the silvered masses of cyclamen, the rosy coleus. Drapes open, skylights blue with sunshine. Alice swallowed, but something in her throat would neither go down nor come up. The detective said, Did you step into the room before you saw them?   They were sitting in chairs. I didn't expect to see them at all. I thought they had a gig somewhere up near Boston. Honey pushed her cup of coffee a few millimeters toward her and said, As they were found by Officer Dolan?   Alice nodded. I said, 'Hi!' Just like that. Hi!' I was glad to see them. The cherry greeting had resonated almost visibly in the air of the room, so that Alice had heard it and heard it the whole time she was looking. Somehow the riveting sight was not their ravaged faces, but Craig's foot half out of his boot, so that it looked broken or deformed. It took her a long time to realize that he must have been in the act of pulling his boot off when the shot was fired. Honey flipped back a page or two in his notebook. Alice said, I didn't touch anything.  Call received at eleven twenty-eight. That's approximately an hour, Miss Ellis.   It is?   What did you do after discovering the victims?   I think I stood there for a long time, but I don't know how long. Then I walked around the apartment.   And yet you say that you didn't touch anything?   I kept my hands in my pockets. I didn't want to touch anything. I didn't even want to breathe.   You put in your call from?   From Broadway, but I had to walk down a few blocks to find a phone that was in order.   So you were alone in the apartment for approximately half an hour?   I suppose, yes.   Honey made marks on his pad, inhaling one large disapproving breath that seemed to drain the small office of oxygen. Alice said, Maybe you don't understand how shocked I was. I've never seen a corpse. All my grandparents are still alive. We never even had a dog that died.   Did you notice anything at all that seems unusual? You were there a long time. Try to remember as carefully as you can. Perhaps you can call up a detail that you think you didn't notice. The scene of a crime, Mrs. Ellis, can be remarkably eloquent, but even the well-meaning presence of an untrained or unobservant person can silence much of what it has to say.   Pompous, Alice thought, but, rebuked, she blushed. I should have turned right in the doorway and left?   Honey shrugged his assent, but said only, Please think as carefully as possible.   I was very upset.   But what did you see?   Alice thought for a couple of minutes, but it was impossible to say. When she made herself recall the scene of the crime square inch by square inch, she couldn't tell if she was merely seeing what she knew would be in Susan's apartment. Nothing comes to me.   Detective Honey cleared his throat. Alice wondered if he were about to run her in. Did the daughters of hardware store owners from Rochester, Minnesota, actually wind up in Women's Detention for stumbling upon murder victims? It was not something you learned about, in the end, from reading Kafka, or The New York Times. He said, Perhaps you could tell me something about yourself, then, Mrs. Ellis.   The smell was very sharp. I was upset and kind of physically shocked. My bones and muscles seemed like they were vibrating.   You are not a native New Yorker?   Alice looked at him for a moment. Was it time to ask for a lawyer, cite Miranda, stand up and refuse to answer any more questions? But when she opened her mouth, she was naming herself, Alice Marie Ellis, divorced, no children, aged thirty-one, librarian, New York Public Library, main branch, 557 West Eighty-fourth Street. Native of Rochester, Minnesota, mother nurse, father in hammers and hoses, former husband poet and college teacher. 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When Logan and two of his colleagues unearth a component that may effectively help fight breast cancer, he learns first-hand just how desperate these scientists are. As the doctors at A.C.I. use all their influence to sabotage his research, Logan frantically searches for more information about this wonder drug, the missing piece in the breast cancer puzzle, before the A.C.I. destroys his career. But the show-down between Logan and the A.C.I. has even greater implications--the life of a highly-placed woman in American politics is in jeopardy, and only Logan's compound can help.  The Magic Bullet is a first-rate, gripping medical thriller, filled with fascinating--and terrifying--details about the cold-blooded world of high-stakes cancer research. Harry Stein takes a disturbing look at the ivory tower world of medicine, where hubris, not commitment and compassion, is the rule.  Editorial Reviews  From Publishers Weekly Set in the high-stakes world of cancer research, Stein's medical thriller follows a young doctor whose discovery of a potential cure makes him powerful enemies in the medical establishment.  Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  From Library Journal The highly political world of medical research is the background for this sus-penseful novel by the author of Hoopla (St. Martin's, 1987). Young, bright, and compassionate, Dan Logan is honored to join a prestigious cancer research institute, even though the faculty and senior staff appear to care more about personal gain and prestige than finding a cure. Logan and his partner, the lovely Sabrina Como, believe that they have found a miracle medicine, but when their trials with human patients begin to go terribly wrong, they are dishonored by their colleagues. Has someone sabotaged their research? Stein's picture of the politics and all-too-human messiness of medical research is entertaining. Unfortunately, the reader will become distracted by other characters and issues that are sketched but not resolved; this dilutes the suspense and blunts the climax of the novel. Nevertheless, fans of medical drama will make this a popular choice for most public libraries. --Elsa Pendleton, Boeing Computer Support Svcs., Ridgecrest, Cal. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  Review Fans of Cook's medical intrigues will find a welcome companion approach in Stein's novel, which follows the politics involved in a medical research team's search for a cancer cure. Add high-profile political figures and the binding story of a woman who discovers her incurable cancer and you have a fine story of medical suspense and flamboyant personalities. -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  From Booklist Stein, who has written a number of articles on ethical issues, turns his attention to the ethics--or lack thereof--in breast-cancer research. His story is set in the fictionalized American Cancer Institute, where Dr. Daniel Logan, a brilliant young biochemist and M.D., suffers through a year from hell as a research fellow with the Institute. Not only are his bosses officious, obnoxious prima donnas with terminal cases of one-upmanship, but the intense competition for funding, fame, and a viable cure for the big C leads adult physicians to behave like ill-tempered five-year-olds. Fortunately for Dan, two classmates, John Reston and Sabrina Como, turn out to be good pals, and in addition to working 95-hour weeks, the three decide to launch their own research protocol with a drug called Compound Q. Disaster befalls the trio and their dream drug, but despite the drama, there's a happy ending. A serious and timely topic--curing breast cancer--can't keep this book from occasionally falling into the written equivalent of a bad soap opera, but it's an undeniable page-turner, full of medical crises, attractive hospital personnel, juicy politics, and slam-bang suspense. A possible best-seller, especially given it's expos{‚}e slant on cancer research. Emily Melton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  From the Inside Flap Daniel Logan has the world at his feet. As the most gifted young doctor at New York City's top medical facility, he's been aggressively wooed to join an exclusive, lucrative private practice in the city. Money, celebrity status, and great perks--but Logan turns it all down. For he's more interested in a different kind of fame. Logan wants to help find a cure for cancer, and is accepted into the prestigious American Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C., to do research with some of the best minds in medicine--and also some of the most ruthless, cut-throat scientists, who will stop at nothing to protect their own cancer-combative drug studies.  In The Magic Bullet, Harry Stein brilliantly depicts the brutal, deadly competitive world of the A.C.l, where egomaniacal senior scientists jealously guard their research turf from up-and-coming young doctors like Logan and the other new researchers. When Logan and two of his colleagues unearth a component that may effectively help fight breast cancer, he learns first-hand just how desperate these scientists are. As the doctors at A.C.I. use all their influence to sabotage his research, Logan frantically searches for more information about this wonder drug, the missing piece in the breast cancer puzzle, before the A.C.I. destroys his career. But the show-down between Logan and the A.C.I. has even greater implications--the life of a highly-placed woman in American politics is in jeopardy, and only Logan's compound can help.  The Magic Bullet is a first-rate, gripping medical thriller, filled with fascinating--and terrifying--details about the cold-blooded world of high-stakes cancer research. Harry Stein takes a disturbing look at the ivory tower world of medicine, where hubris, not commitment and compassion, is the rule. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  From the Publisher Daniel Logan has the world at his feet. 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