Designer Knockoff
The Second
Crime of Fashion
Mystery
SIGNET ISBN 0-451-21268-1 $6.99
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"Clever and intriguing...
It's a pleasure to watch Lacey. Clever wordplay, snappy patter, and intriguing clues...
A cut
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Haute couture heats up The City Fashion Forgot
Skeptical fashion reporter and stylish sleuth Lacey Smithsonian returns
in the second volume in the Crime of Fashion series. This time she becomes entangled in a fabric of deceit and death when high fashion
collides with low dealings in very unstylish Washington, D.C. A missing Congressional intern's scandalous secret,
a New York fashion dynasty's closetful of skeletons, a young designer's unsolved disappearance, and a long-lost scrap of black market
silk from World War Two--it's a pattern custom-tailored for murder. And what on earth does her beloved Aunt Mimi's trunk full of memories
and long-forgotten dress patterns have to do with the faceless but well-dressed body in the swamp? Lacey and her motley crew of friends
and conspirators race to unravel the truth behind two disappearances sixty years apart and unmask the killer behind a dress to
die for.
Lacey's Fashion Bite of the Day:
Shopping under the influence of temptation? Beware of chocolate highs, bogus bargains,
frivolous friends,
and impossible fantasies. Or are you really ready to jet off to Spain, just because that
slinky little white dress
whispers, "Barcelona"?
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