coltras35
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Steve's retired colleague Dave 'Hawk' Hawkins is murdered while undercover in the resting home Sunny Meadows. While waiting for Steve to perform an arrest, a vase is smashed onto his skull, expertly staged as a bath-drowning.
Steve works out that Hawk was working on a robbery case, involving retiree Bart Ellison who was recently released from jail and still had a $2,000,000 loot, but he dies from an OD. The sleuths' theory being the motive was his hefty inheritance; Mark has himself signed in as a retired banker Brinkley by Jesse, who helps Steve look for what Bart spent his ill gotten gains on.
Friendly nurse Julie Crane is left a painting as memento; administrator Zanuck steals a valuable timepiece, valued a good replica, then finds a rat attributed to the garbage strike, while Steve researches Zanuck's father was in on the robbery. But then Mark has to blow his cover to perform an emergency tracheotomy...
A rather zany but amusing episode which finds Mark Sloan going undercover in an old people's home to solve a murder case. Cue: some humorous moments and good performances from the old codgers. Found the denouement underwhelming, however, and the mystery or the purpose of the murders not explained well.
Steve works out that Hawk was working on a robbery case, involving retiree Bart Ellison who was recently released from jail and still had a $2,000,000 loot, but he dies from an OD. The sleuths' theory being the motive was his hefty inheritance; Mark has himself signed in as a retired banker Brinkley by Jesse, who helps Steve look for what Bart spent his ill gotten gains on.
Friendly nurse Julie Crane is left a painting as memento; administrator Zanuck steals a valuable timepiece, valued a good replica, then finds a rat attributed to the garbage strike, while Steve researches Zanuck's father was in on the robbery. But then Mark has to blow his cover to perform an emergency tracheotomy...
A rather zany but amusing episode which finds Mark Sloan going undercover in an old people's home to solve a murder case. Cue: some humorous moments and good performances from the old codgers. Found the denouement underwhelming, however, and the mystery or the purpose of the murders not explained well.
Dr Mark Sloan is asked by a friend to cover for a cruise ship's Doctor, who has gone on his honeymoon, splitting the medical duties with Jesse and Amanda, and Steve tags along for a much needed vacation.
Barely aboard, they must save multimillionaire Robert Brantigan, who somehow had taken a triple dose of insulin. Robert later goes missing, and his wife Clare reports him missing to the ships' Captain. News later then reaches the cruise ship that his drowned body has been recovered.
Steve learns Robert's daughter Amy (from his first marriage) has access through her pharmaceutical internet business to the drugs that are found in Robert's body during Amanda's autopsy, and she determines he's been murdered. His wife, Clare, suggests he may have been suicidal, and definitely drunk when she saw him the night before, then accuses his daughter Amy, who confides in Steve that his recent angry outbursts were due to a brain tumor he'd told nobody else about.
The L. A. P. D. talks to the sister of Clare's first husband, Carl Donahue (who also perished at sea on a cruise), but Clare points out she wasn't then, and isn't now in her husbands' will - but the sister tells Steve she was paid handsomely by his insurance company. Key pieces of evidence are found hidden in Amy's cabin.
Will Mark, Amanda, Steve and Jesse be able to put all the clues together to catch the killer?
Just love murders on a cruise, so much fun, and this DM entry is just that, and the mystery is engaging and I liked how the gang were together, getting to the bottom of a possible murder. There's a clever villainess and Dr MarkSloan is close to danger.
Barely aboard, they must save multimillionaire Robert Brantigan, who somehow had taken a triple dose of insulin. Robert later goes missing, and his wife Clare reports him missing to the ships' Captain. News later then reaches the cruise ship that his drowned body has been recovered.
Steve learns Robert's daughter Amy (from his first marriage) has access through her pharmaceutical internet business to the drugs that are found in Robert's body during Amanda's autopsy, and she determines he's been murdered. His wife, Clare, suggests he may have been suicidal, and definitely drunk when she saw him the night before, then accuses his daughter Amy, who confides in Steve that his recent angry outbursts were due to a brain tumor he'd told nobody else about.
The L. A. P. D. talks to the sister of Clare's first husband, Carl Donahue (who also perished at sea on a cruise), but Clare points out she wasn't then, and isn't now in her husbands' will - but the sister tells Steve she was paid handsomely by his insurance company. Key pieces of evidence are found hidden in Amy's cabin.
Will Mark, Amanda, Steve and Jesse be able to put all the clues together to catch the killer?
Just love murders on a cruise, so much fun, and this DM entry is just that, and the mystery is engaging and I liked how the gang were together, getting to the bottom of a possible murder. There's a clever villainess and Dr MarkSloan is close to danger.
Steve is rushed to hospital after a car crash; Jesse saves him, but while still partly under anesthesia he believes he sees a murder by a doctor with a knife, or rather injecting him with a lethal syringe. Needless to say, his claims are put down as hallucinations due to his state of mind.
One patient deceased around that time, Edgar Wellers, had quarreled with his wife Ashley, who inherits his fortune and is a retired nurse with a hospital pass and has him cremated too soon for a thorough second autopsy. Jesse has invested 'a truckload' in the pharmaceutical company which develops the promising cancer drug Lexomite, on the advice of a company saleswoman he dates.
When the company's stock takes a dive, as the trials have run out of statistically sufficient numbers of living patients, the Sloanes suspect the killer could be connected to the program- this track has more surprises in store..
Another solid episode with Heidi Marks rising the temperature a little as a widow who might have been responsible for her sixty four year old husband. She did hate him and would inherit his money. But maybe she's too obvious - it could be doctor Hart? He's acting a mite too fishy. Or it could be someone else.
One patient deceased around that time, Edgar Wellers, had quarreled with his wife Ashley, who inherits his fortune and is a retired nurse with a hospital pass and has him cremated too soon for a thorough second autopsy. Jesse has invested 'a truckload' in the pharmaceutical company which develops the promising cancer drug Lexomite, on the advice of a company saleswoman he dates.
When the company's stock takes a dive, as the trials have run out of statistically sufficient numbers of living patients, the Sloanes suspect the killer could be connected to the program- this track has more surprises in store..
Another solid episode with Heidi Marks rising the temperature a little as a widow who might have been responsible for her sixty four year old husband. She did hate him and would inherit his money. But maybe she's too obvious - it could be doctor Hart? He's acting a mite too fishy. Or it could be someone else.
