A complex exciting mystery novel. The Dead Key, by author, D.M. Pulley has a complicated plot that spans twenty years, traveling back and forth between 1978 and 1998. In 1978 two women from the secretary pool at the large Cleveland bank are trying to bring down a scam being implemented by the leaders of the bank. Beatrice Baker is a young woman, new to the big city and assigned as a secretary to one of the bank managers. As she makes friends with the other "girls" she becomes involved in a mystery. Beatrice and her friend are risking their lives when everything is closed down.
Twenty years later Iris is assigned to create blue prints for an engineering company that wants to buy the building and renovate it for its new owner. As she starts to measure the rooms and layout the floor plan, she finds a questionable situation. Her investigation brings her into dangerous, scary circumstances. A well woven story line that ties up all the loose ends neatly at the end.
Using the modern day company coming in to clean out a long deserted building as the background for this story of intrigue and adding in a new young girl fresh out of school at her first job, along with a bit of possible romance with a few young fellas and you have the right amount of suspense that keeps you reading to the end. As Iris Latch is making her blue prints she starts investigating some of the unusual things she is finding in the building. The descriptions of the bank, both past and present, are haunting. You feel like you are in the building exploring with Iris and like you are there back in the secretarial pool with Beatrice Baker as she is trying to save herself and reveal the secrets and dishonesty that is being carried out at the bank. There are some interesting twists along the way and also the possibility that there could be a sequel.
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