A Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases

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A Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases

Original publication date

1996

People/Characters

Morris Blankenbaker; Gabby Moore; Jerrilee Blankenbaker Moore Littleton; Rick Blankenbaker; Amanda Blankenbaker; Dale Soost (show all 64); Rowland Seal; Vern Henderson; Jeff Sullivan; Angelo "Tuffy" Pleasant; Robert Brimmer; Adam Meoor; Loretta Scott; Dennis Myers; Chris Tait; Olive Blankenbaker; Marilee Blaine; Doug Blaine; Corporal Tim Taylor; Deputy Ralph Nicholson; Lori Susan Buckley; Walter Louis Buckley; Deputy Bernie Papenfus; Lieutenant Killburn McCoy; Detective Jim Byrnes; Detective Dave Kominek; Martin "Marty" Sells; Hilda Victoria "Vicki" Brown; Myron Wicks; Byron Wicks; Herb McDonnell; Ruth Logg; Kathleen Logg; Susan Logg Lea; Dr. Anthony "Tony" Fernandez; Bill Belcher; John Casteel; Ted Forrester; Detective Roger Dunn; Superior Court Judge George Revelle; Dr. F. Warren Lovell; Dr. Gale Wilson; Dr. Donald Reay; Arthur Piehler; Walt Stout; Larry Hendricks; Private Niels Honegger; Deputy Greg Riehl; Detective Mark French; Sam Brand; Michael Bertram Zahnle; James Edward Ruzicka; Carl Harp; Nina Temple; Detective Joyce Johnson; Tannie Fletcher; Nancy Kinghammer; Penny Marie Haddenham; Roy Moran; Bernie Miller; Detective George Cuthill; Troy Asin; Abraham Saltzman; John Mott

Important places

Yakima, Washington, USA; Seattle, Washington, USA; Salem, Oregon, USA; Marion County, Oregon, USA; Columbia County, Oregon, USA; Rainier, Oregon, USA (show all 19); King County, Washington, USA; Pierce County, Washington, USA; Tacoma, Washington, USA; Vancouver, Washington, USA; Port Angeles, Washington, USA; Beaverton, Oregon, USA; Washington County, Oregon, USA; Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA; San Quentin Prison, California, USA; USA; California, USA; Oregon, USA; Washington, USA

Epigraph

In tragic life, God wot

No villain need be! Passions win the plot;

We are betrayed by what is false within.

--George Meredith, Modern Love

Dedication

For my friend Olive Morgan Blankenbaker, born 1910, and for my mother, Sophie Hansen Stackhouse, 1906-1995, two brave women who lost their only sons much too soon.

They taught me to survive tragedy and loss and how to ... (show all)grow old with grace and dignity.

First words

In 1975 the Friday after Thanksgiving in Yakima was icy and bleak. - A Fever In The Heart

The sounds coming through the bedroom wall in the duplex apartment in suburban Salem, Oregon, were too loud and too disturbing f... (show all)or anyone to sleep through. - The Highway Accident

Marty Sells is the District Attorney of Colombia County, Oregon. - Murder Without A Body

When her life was viewed in terms of worldly goods, Ruth Logg, had everything. - I'll Love You Forever

It was a little after eight A.M. on Monday, the first of May, 1979, when Sam Brand, a farmer who lives in an isolated, wooded rural area near Roy, Washington, heard someone pounding frantically on his front door. - Black Leather

James Ruzicka and Carl Harp were convicted killers of the 1970's - and rapists too - several times over, but they never faced the hangman's noose. - Mirror Images

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)This is for you, Olive. - A Fever In The Heart

Ironically, he now lives the life that Lori dreamed of. - The Highway Accident

And because of the silent testimony of Vicki Brown's own blood, that just wasn't enough. - Murder Without A Body

Perhaps she knows, however, that those daughters saw their quest through to the end and gave her the only gift they could: justice. - I'll Love You Forever

And he does carry that nightmare for the rest of his days. - Black Leather

And in the end, could not they both have been considered "madmen"? - Mirror Images
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