The major social issue In the Last Analysis (1964) is professional ethics, in particular the integrity of the medical profession — including psychiatry — and the confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship. Kate and her friend Reed Amhearst, who works in the District Attorney's office, sleuth throughout numerous Cross mysteries.
Reed is, in In the Last Analysis, an Assistant District Attorney, though in later novels he becomes a professor in a law school and ultimately an international consultant on police ethics. A.....
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