Widow's Plight

New OCR, formatted, proofed, v1.2 One would think that two elderly ladies, reluctant pensioners on a younger generation, would be defenseless. But Kate Barsony and Addie Prentice had resources of courage and determination that were to surprise assorted tough characters, It all began when Kate’s handsome son-in-law was murdered. Although Jancsi, her lovely daughter, knew more about it than she would tell, it soon became evident that Jancsi and Addie’s son, Lindsey, were mixed up in a vicious blackmail scheme that threatened all of them. It was hard for Addie to picture Lindsey, a conscientious high school teacher, as part of blackmail. But she began to suspect that “Fix,” the disbarred lawyer who had once come to see him, had something to do with it. As she ferreted out more of the sordid story, she began getting too close to the truth to suit certain underworld characters. And for the first time in her life Addie found that the world wasn’t nearly so safe a place as she had imagined... Scene: New York City