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      <image:caption>The Driskill was built in 1886.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Across the lobby, past the ornate marble floors and towering gilded columns, was a magnificent bifurcated grand staircase, over which presided a life-size portrait of the hotel’s founder, cattle baron Colonel Jesse Lincoln Driskill.” - Partners in Crime: The Driskill Hotel Mystery</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Partners in Crime is FREE for subscribers, and it’s FREE to subscribe! Go to www,DerekWheelessAuthor.com today and sign up. When you do you’ll receive my monthly newsletter “Partners in Crime Reading” and Partners in Crime: The Driskill Hotel Mystery. It’s all about how Jaxson met Holiday. It’s daring. It’s dangerous. And it’s delightfully fun!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When Jaxson and Holiday are invited to a gorgeous old inn in the heart of beautiful historic Charleston, the couple jumps at the chance for the perfect romantic getaway, only to discover that the pleasures promised come with a price. Along with the carriage rides, the fine dining, and the spa appointments, they must work with Holiday’s six best college friends to solve the twenty-year mystery of the murder of one of their own. But when a body is found inside the mansion, and when Jaxson is asked to find the killer among them, the married sleuths soon realize that uncovering the clues to a day nobody can forget will mean digging up a past nobody wants to remember. Everyone has their secrets, even Jaxson’s new wife. To find the killer, Jaxson and Holiday will need to risk their lives and their new marriage. Can Jaxson trust his wife to be the woman he thought he married? Can Holiday trust her husband with the secret she once buried? And, most importantly, can the newlyweds expose a killer before he or she stops them from revealing a secret that was never supposed to be told?</image:caption>
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