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Pendlemac wrote:A while back I found something that explained exactly how Elaine Descroix met her end.

I can remember pearls and gas being involved but searching the forums for those and some other keywords gets nowhere.

Tried 'Peals of Weber' and other places, no joy.

Pretty sure it wasn't part of a full-length novel.

Anybody able to put me out of my misery and remind me where it can be found.

ps I don't even mind if the response is along the lines of 'You idiot, it's in novel XYZ!'

And just to make the situation even better, we have strong indications that in the course of his own contributions to generating this fiasco, Zilwicki managed to get his hands on some sort of evidence which led to the disappearance of Countess North Hollow and the destruction of the North Hollow Files, which ultimately played its own part in the fall of the High Ridge Government and Descroix's complete loss of power."
"Speaking of Descroix . . . ?" another of Detweiler's guests inquired.
"No longer a problem," Bardasano replied with a thin smile.
"Good."
"But eliminating her didn't eliminate the fallout from the entire Congo debacle," Sandusky pointed out.
"No, it didn't," Anisimovna agreed. "It comes under the heading of damage control, at best."
"Agreed," Detweiler said.

tlb wrote:In chapter 2 of At All Costs there is this brief mention of her fate, but I do not remember it being fleshed out more elsewhere:

And just to make the situation even better, we have strong indications that in the course of his own contributions to generating this fiasco, Zilwicki managed to get his hands on some sort of evidence which led to the disappearance of Countess North Hollow and the destruction of the North Hollow Files, which ultimately played its own part in the fall of the High Ridge Government and Descroix's complete loss of power."
"Speaking of Descroix . . . ?" another of Detweiler's guests inquired.
"No longer a problem," Bardasano replied with a thin smile.
"Good."
"But eliminating her didn't eliminate the fallout from the entire Congo debacle," Sandusky pointed out.
"No, it didn't," Anisimovna agreed. "It comes under the heading of damage control, at best."
"Agreed," Detweiler said.

I do not have searchable text after Mission of Honor, so there could have been more about her trying to flee with money (vague recollection).

Pendlemac wrote:I think Bardasano appeared in the text and a camouflaged gas chamber was involved.

The text finished with Descroix offering pearls as a last ditch attempt for freedom and Bardasano complaining about what the gas did to them.

BTW, I don't think it was fan-fic as I haven't really read any from the Honorverse.

When High Ridge resigned, she put together 20 million Manticoran dollars, and departed on a tourist excursion to Beowulf; it was later assumed that she did not plan to return. The money was transferred into an account which put it essentially out of the reach of the Manticoran government in the Stotterman System. It was widely believed that at least some of the money may have been obtained by illegal means as part of High Ridge government's corruption. She was not heard of again.

Pendlemac wrote:
Yeah, the bit about her fleeing with money is what I've 'lost'.

I think Bardasano appeared in the text and a camouflaged
gas chamber was involved.

The text finished with Descroix offering pearls as a last ditch attempt for freedom and Bardasano complaining about what the gas did to them.

BTW, I don't think it was fan-fic as I haven't really read any from the Honorverse.

Pendlemac wrote:
Yeah, the bit about her fleeing with money is what I've 'lost'.

I think Bardasano appeared in the text and a camouflaged
gas chamber was involved.

The text finished with Descroix offering pearls as a last ditch attempt for freedom and Bardasano complaining about what the gas did to them.

BTW, I don't think it was fan-fic as I haven't really read any from the Honorverse.

War of Honor, Chapter 59 wrote:"Descroix?" Honor asked.
"We're not sure," Elizabeth admitted. "She tendered her resignation along with High Ridge, of course. And then, a couple of days later, she headed out to Beowulf on one of the day excursion ships . . . and didn't come back. From the looks of things, there was no foul play involved, unless it was her own. I think she planned on not coming back, although at this point no one has the least idea where she may have headed. All we know for sure it is that she transferred about twenty million dollars through a numbered DNA account on Beowulf to another account in the Stotterman System." The Queen grimaced. "You know what the Stotterman banking laws are like. It's going to take us at least ten or twelve T-years to get access to their records."
"Where did the money come from?" Honor wondered.
"We're working on that one from our end, Your Grace," Colonel Shemais put in diffidently. "So far, we don't have any definite leads, but there are a couple of at least slightly promising avenues for us to follow up. If we find what I expect to, we may be able to break Stotterman open a little sooner. They are part of the Solarian League, after all, and Sollie banking regulations are pretty specific about cooperating with embezzlement and malfeasance investigations."

Pendlemac wrote:A while back I found something that explained exactly how Elaine Descroix met her end.

I can remember pearls and gas being involved but searching the forums for those and some other keywords gets nowhere.

Tried 'Peals of Weber' and other places, no joy.

Pretty sure it wasn't part of a full-length novel.

Anybody able to put me out of my misery and remind me where it can be found.

ps I don't even mind if the response is along the lines of 'You idiot, it's in novel XYZ!'

Fox2! wrote:

Pendlemac wrote:A while back I found something that explained exactly how Elaine Descroix met her end.

I can remember pearls and gas being involved but searching the forums for those and some other keywords gets nowhere.

Tried 'Peals of Weber' and other places, no joy.

Pretty sure it wasn't part of a full-length novel.

Anybody able to put me out of my misery and remind me where it can be found.

ps I don't even mind if the response is along the lines of 'You idiot, it's in novel XYZ!'

That particular method of disposal is from one of Anne McCaffery's Familias Regnant stories. I don't think RFC exactly explained how Descroix met her well deserved end, whatever it may have been.