Father Fever

"Who's the Daddy?" first started with the McKeon Brothers and now the triplet Ames sisters have revisited Dancer's Beach, Oregon. Their aunt, Sadie Richmond has left some pieces to the girls but Cliffside House got left to David Hartford. Athena, Alexis and Augusta want to know if this David had coerced Sadie out of her property. At the Historical Meeting and Ball the girls learned that David and his friends would be dressed up as the Three Muskateers. Yup! each girl would latch onto a Muskateer to find out who was who and any other incriminating evidence. Ah, the confusion it finally lead to. Seven months later there is a picture in the Portland paper of a pregnant red-head. One of the triplets. Athena does not know which of her sisters is missing, she can't contact either one. David thinks that this is the young woman he thought he made love to. Oh, the trouble, the lies, the evasions this leads to as Athena and he meet at the hospital only to find that the woman has disapeared. David talks Athena into their searching together for this woman with amnesia, she just does not tell him about a third sister. Athena's detective finds out that the mentioned David Hartford is 34 and works for the Chicago Tribune. Yet there are blanks in his time life period. Along with David is Trevyn McGinty, 32, a camera bum also hired by the Chicago Tribune and John Bramston Bishop, 37, who joined the U.S. Army at 18, served 10 years until age 28 then no information until the current address of Cliffside. Could these guys be spooks? Athena finds this very suspicious - she is a lawyer from Washington D.C. Alexis is an artist, a bit kwerky and Augusta is a grade-school teacher, quite feminine. Really a great story and then David's half-brothers, Brandon and Brady show up with a giant of a dog, Ferdie. David's mother must be a bit loopy! GREATLY RECOMMENDED -- m