01359cam a2200241 4500 388793792 TxAuBib 20110318120000.0 010530s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 99031444 9780446519809 0446519804 TxAuBib Brown, Sandra, 1948- The Alibi / Sandra Brown. New York, NY : Warner Books, 1999. 490 p. ; 24 cm. Charleston assistant district attorney Hammond Cross unaccountably finds himself at a county fair, where he meets a mysterious woman and saves her from hungry servicemen. She leads him on, then fades into the night. Meanwhile, Charleston's biggest developer and satyr, Lute Petit john, is murdered in the Charles Towne Plaza. Lute was the ex-brother-in-law of top detective Rory Smilow, who is investigating the murder and whom sexy assistant county solicitor Steffi Mundell begs to help her land this superhigh-profile case. All avenues at last lead to Dr. Alex Ladd, the very woman Hammond was dancing with while the murder occurred. But Hammond cant reveal he's her alibi without compromising his job as a legal- evidence gatherer for the city. 20010726. Murder. Mystery. Romance Fiction.