In Deadly Fashion (eBook)

Rosemary Simpson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
304 Seiten
Kensington Books (Verlag)
9781496741110 (ISBN)

Infos

Heiress Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter are about to become more than partners as investigatorsthey are to be wed at Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan. But a killer has designs on ruining the wedding as well as their lives . . . IN DEADLY FASHIONAUGUST 1891.Prudence has her heart set on wearing her mother's wedding gown on the happy day, but she soon discovers the material has deteriorated so badly that it cannot be refurbished. With time running out, she decides to seek out a new American designer, a woman who trained in the House of Worth, the makers of the original dress in Paris, who now has a shop in New York City. The gown is nearly complete when the expert seamstress overseeing the project is found dead in the studio, with Prudence's wedding dress slashed to ribbons and scattered over the body. The murder incites a scandal, as client after client deserts the now struggling designer. Now not only must Prudence find the murderer, she must rescue the talented young couturiere's reputationall while another gown is being hastily sewn. The police suspect the seamstress's disgruntled lover. Prudence wonders about other designers competing in the cutthroat world of high fashion. But when additional wedding plans start to go awry, it's clear there is an elaborate campaign of sabotage and that either Prudence or Geoffrey or both are being targeted. Once again they must work as a team to expose whoever is determined to ruin their livesbefore the future they've so long dreamed of is left in tatters . . .

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Gilded Age Mystery
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Schlagworte: Allan Pinkerton • books fiction • books mystery • Cozy • cozy mysteries women sleuths series • Cozy Mystery • Crime • crime books • detective • Detective Novels • female sleuth • female sleuth historical mystery • feminist historical mystery • Fiction • fiction books • Geoffrey hunter • Gilded Age detectives • Gilded Age historical mystery • Gilded Age Manhattan • Gilded Age New York City • Historical • historical murder mystery • historical mysteries • historical mystery • historical mystery couples • historical mystery fiction • historical mystery novels • Murder Mystery • murder mystery books • Mysteries • mysteries and thrillers • Mystery • mystery and suspense • mystery and thrillers • mystery books • mystery novels • mystery thriller suspense • New York City historical murder mystery • nineteenth-century historical mystery • Novels • Pinkerton agents • Pinkerton Detectives • Police • private investigator mysteries • prudence and Geoffrey • prudence Mackenzie • Thriller • turn-of-the-century mystery • Victorian • women sleuths • women sleuths mysteries
• ISBN-13: 9781496741110 / 9781496741110