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A veteran reporter who suffered a heart attack says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher. Jessica gets involved after the man ends up dead.

Respactable old-fashioned reporter Haskell Drake lands in a hospital with a heart attack after his rant for sensationalist copy-doctoring at tycoon Lamar Bennett, who recently bought the Boston Daily Sentinel from equally conservative Walter Revere, gets him fired on the spot. Jessica tries to reason with Bennett on her old friend Drake's behalf but is told to come back at a celebratory party in a hotel, where she witnesses Bennett collapse and die while announcing Walter is fired,too, which Jessica realizes may have be induced by a combination of alcohol and and a specific drug, not necessarily taken simultaneously. Bennett was on sinusitis medication, as she explained to grumpy BPD Lieutenant A. Caruso, who concurs from the autopsy it was methylthionite and rather sees her as a suspect because of a rather defamatory recent article on her. When Jessica accepts to 'do some legwork' for an article Haskell plans on Lamar's sordid career, she finds the Revere family, which hopes in vain to buy back control of the newspaper, touchy about that subject. Haskell discovers Lamar probably has an illegitimate child, possibly Walter's son Perry's fiancée and newspaper colleague Kay Garrett. Jessica thinks that through plus an anomaly in Lamar's death's reporting.—KGF Vissers

After an argument with the publisher and new owner of the Boston Daily Sentinel, Lamar Bennett, old-time newspaperman Haskell Drake collapses and is rushed to a hospital. Jessica goes to visit her old friend Haskell in the hospital and he convinces her to do a bit of investigating for him. Lamar Bennett is widely disliked having turned the Sentinel from being a respectable newspaper into a trashy tabloid. The former owner, Walter Revere, hates him as does his son, Perry, who still works there. When Bennett collapses and dies at the first anniversary party marking the takeover of the Sentinel, many believe he was killed. Haskell is determined to get to the bottom of it and Jessica investigates.—garykmcd