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The Quillen Trilogy-all three books in one volumefIRST tHING ~ kILL tHE lAWYERS Attorney Clara Quillen is stunned when she reads about the murders of three San Francisco lawyers and realizes her former boss, Bernard Kahn, is one of the victims. The lawyers were killed on the same night, in the same manner, each holding a copy of an often- misunderstood Shakespearean quote from Henry VI, Part II: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” SFPD Detective Roy Travis recruits Clara to aid his investigation as she has access to confidential client information that may shed light on potential suspects. Clara jumps at the opportunity and agrees to become an amateur sleuth, working with Travis. During the course of the investigation, the murderer strikes again. As the list of suspects continues to grow and Clara unearths information regarding elaborate blackmail schemes that incriminate both friends and colleagues, she receives a threat that she, herself, may the next victim unless she abandons her pursuit of the cold-blooded killer...SECOND IN HER CLASS San Francisco attorney Clara Quillen is contacted by SFPD Detective Roy Travis again, this time because Vivian Hall, a beautiful young professor who went to the same law school as Clara, has been mur-dered. The body was found in the same place where Kim Novak jumped into San Francisco Bay in the movie Vertigo, and Clara con-siders some of the film’s other locations for possible links to the mur-derer. She also takes a part-time teaching job at the law school where Vivian was a professor. As Clara digs for the truth, various suspects gradually emerge: students, professors, and others related to the work Vivian did on be behalf of abused and neglected children. Meanwhile, in the course of the investigation, Clara finds herself becoming roman-tically involved with an attractive judge—who she suspects may not have been completely honest about his relationship with Vivian…THIRD MAN THEME In this third mystery in the Qu