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Who in the world wants that gorgeous red dress with the bad reputation? Everybody! Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian has never seen such a gown: crimson, flowing, fabulous. And infamous. The actress who first wore it on stage died in it on the closing night of The Masque of the Red Death - and she was playing Death. Burglary, assault and murder now seem to haunt this legendary gown like a ghost.
Who would want it enough to kill for it? Crazy theatre...
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Meet inquisitive Evangeline, one-half of the precocious twelve-year-old Bresette twins. It's just another summer for them, swimming, squabbling, and coping with their lawyer parents-until a woman dies at their grandparents' country club. And Evangeline notices the corpse is missing a pair of diamond earrings. She launches her own investigation into the alleged earring theft. Her twin brother, Raphael, would prefer to simply go swimming and leave the...
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Fashion reporter and stylish sleuth Lacey Smithsonian returns in her second Crime of Fashion Mystery, as high crimes and haute couture heat up Washington, D. C.: "The City Fashion Forgot. " Lacey tangles with a fabric of deceit and death when high fashion meets low dealings in unfashionable Washington. A missing intern's scandalous secret, a New York fashion dynasty's closetful of skeletons, a young fashion designer's unsolved disappearance in the...
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"It's not like it's murder," Mimi told her boss.
"Don't kid yourself, sister. People commit all kinds of crimes for all kinds of reasons. There's murder afoot whenever money is involved."
In wartime Washington, D.C., stolen sugar, illegal moonshine, ladies of the evening, and shortages of goods converge in murder.
It's June 1943, halfway through a World War that feels like it will never end. Rationing, victory gardens, and making do or doing without...
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Welcome to Private Eye School! The homework will kill you.
Lacey Smithsonian's journalism career is going nowhere fast. After collaring killers, saving lives, rescuing homeless children, and recovering priceless jewels (which she didn't get to keep), she's still stuck on the fashion beat at the third-string newspaper in Washington, D. C. (The City Fashion Forgot). She needs a "serious" beat.
What's a savvy reporter to do? Why not take a private...
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A princess died in this corset. Who wouldn't kill for it?
Lacey Smithsonian chases the fashion story of the century and a trip of a lifetime in Raiders of the Lost Corset, the fourth book in Ellen Byerrum's Crime of Fashion Mysteries. "Find the corset!" Corset-maker Magda Rousseau's dying words send her friend, fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian, on a high-stakes scavenger hunt, racing against death. Magda's family secrets held clues to the fabled...
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Halloween is coming and fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian's normally staid Washington, D. C., looks more like a costume party every day.
The season has lots of tricks and treats up its sleeve for Lacey in this third outing of the Crimes of Fashion Mysteries. With a messy murder case in the hothouse world of haute couture just behind her, and a romantic getaway weekend just ahead, Lacey promises her new boyfriend she'll stay out of trouble. For once....
