title: Why Mary Beth Why
author: Ogrodnick, Helen
description: When Mary Beth Hall has a falling out with her father, congressman Randolph Hall, she leaves her home in Decatur, Georgia to live in Baltimore, Maryland where she works as a waitress at a diner on the ocean front.
  When Mary Beth meets and insults a customer, he threatens to kill her, and she runs out the back door of the diner never to be seen again.
  Her parents call in a detective and suddenly everybody is asking where Mary Beth is and why anyone might want her dead.