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Crime of fashion mysteries volume 2
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English
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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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Crime of fashion mysteries volume 4
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English
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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 5
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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The voice of a frightened child draws fashion reporter and sometime sleuth Lacey Smithsonian down and dark alley in Washington, D.C., and deep into a mystery that endangers more than just her Christmas spirit. On the eve of The Eye Street Observer's holiday party, the newspaper's crankiest Grinch falls victim to a mysterious assailant in a Santa Claus cap-A rival journalist, a political terrorist, an enraged reader or something far more sinister?...
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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.
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Crime of fashion mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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After she stumbles upon a dead body while touring a failing Virginia velvet factory, "Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian finds her own life in danger when she receives the killer's rumored calling card.
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Crime of fashion mysteries volume 8
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
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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[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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Crime of fashion mysteries volume 11
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English
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"Fashion scribe Lacey Smithsonian has never seen such a gown. This dress is crimson, flowing, fabulous, and infamous. The actress who first wore it on stage died on closing night--playing Death in 'The Masque of the Red Death' at a Russian émigré theatre. Is the notorious red dress cursed with bad luck? Or is the truth even stranger? It's up to Lacey and her so-called ExtraFashionary Perception to find out once and for all. If the Red Dress of...
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