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Crime of fashion mysteries volume 2
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While attending the opening of a new fashion museum, fashion guru and columnist Lacey Smithsonian chats up her favorite designer, Hugh Bentley, and stumbles upon a colorful mystery, rife with greed and bad taste, that could be linked to the recent disappearance of a Washington intern.
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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....
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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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Crime of fashion mysteries volume 6
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English
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Unchallenged and unappreciated, fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian slips on her trench coat and high-heeled gumshoes to pursue a course in private investigation and a shot at a better job. When a wealthy and erratic D.C. socialite is discovered quite dead outside the classroom, Lacey gets to test those sleuthing skills. Was the victim on her way to share a dangerous secret with Lacey? And what does it have to do with a missing Louis Vuitton vintage...
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Crime of fashion mysteries volume 8
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New American Library
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"When fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian moved to Washington, D.C., from the rugged small town of Sagebrush, Colorado, she thought she'd never look back. But when her former boyfrend cattle rancher Cole Tucker is arrested for the murders of three women, Lacey digs her cowboy boots out of her closet and hops on the next plane. She is certain of Tucker's innocence -- until he abducts her during a daring courthouse escape"--Publisher.
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Crime of fashion mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Washington, D.C., fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian has always believed clothes can be magical, but she's never thought they can be cursed. Until now. Lacey's best friend, Stella, is finally getting married, and at her bachelorette party, fellow bridesmaid--and fortune-teller--Marie Largesse arrives with a stunning Russian shawl. A shawl, Marie warns, that can either bless or curse the wearer. When a party crasher who mocks the shawl is found dead...
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Lethal Black Dress Press
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[2014]
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English
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"When does a little black dress become a lethal black dress? When it becomes unexpectedly weaponized at the most security-conscious event in Washington, D.C. - the fabled White House Correspondents' Dinner. Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian is delighted to finally take her place at the legendary D.C. insider bash, but she senses something is amiss with a pushy TV reporter's vintage Madame X gown with its stunning emerald lining. When the woman takes...
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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...