A Dress to Die For - A Mandy Dyer Mystery

Zusatztext "Delightful. Good! clean fun." --Dorothy Cannell! author of God Save The Queen! "Dolores Johnson writes with wit and panache. I love her sense of humor." --Diane Mott Davidson! author of The Main Corpse Informationen zum Autor Dolores Johnson is a journalist and a field editor for American Drycleaner magazine. She is the author of two previous Mandy Dyer mysteries: Hung Up to Die   and Taken to the Cleaners! and lives in Aurora! Colorado! where she is at work on her next novel. Klappentext Kate Bosworth! owner of Denver's favorite vintage clothing store! found the bargain of her life at the local flea market. After slapping down a $10 for a Fortunoy dress valued at over $5!000! she brought the dress to her friend and consummate professional Mandy Dyer! owner of Dyer's Cleaners. When Kate doesn't show up to claim the dress! Mandy pays a visit to Kate's shop. There she finds Kate's body! her hand still clutching the Dyer's Cleaners claim check. Could a dress be motive enough for murder? Granted, it had been only three days since Kate brought me her dress.  Some people don't come back for their clothes for weeks.  They seem to think our plant is a giant closet, set up for their personal convenience.  If they don't have adequate storage space at home, why not just leave their winter wardrobes at the cleaners all summer? But Kate had been too enthusiastic about the dress to do that.  Unless she'd found a rich new lover and they'd flown off to Venice together. I stared at the hatbox with the dress nestled down inside.  It was on the shelf where we kept comforters and other household items, and I grabbed it and headed for the back of the plant. "You'd have thought Kate would have been here by now to get her dress, the way she was so thrilled about," I said to McKenzie Rivers, my cleaner/spotter. Mack had been excited, too, when Kate went around to the back door of the plant to tell him about it.  He said he'd seen only one other Fortuny in all the years he'd worked for my uncle. "Kate probably just got too busy with all the other things she does," he reminded me. Mack's a big black man, who knew Kate because he's involved in community theater, and when he'd staged Othello a couple of years ago, she had helped find some of the costumes for the production. "I'm going to take it over to her shop," I said, trying to feel reassured by his words. Mack nodded.  "Tell her I think she looks like a red-haired Theda Bara in that new, short hairdo." "And who, pray tell, is Theda Bara?" He grinned.  "She was a silent screen star known as 'The Vamp.' " "Okay, Kate ought to like that." It was the era she coveted, after all.  "If you're gone by the time I get back, I'll see you tomorrow." I'd been wanting to play hooky from the cleaners, and I finally had an excuse to get outside.  It was a beautiful day with the temperature in the mid eighties, and I didn't even bother to go in my office and get the jacket to my peach-colored linen suit.  I just took off. I climbed inside what I called my "starter" car, a used Hyundai that I'd purchased recently.  Before that I'd used the company van as my personal transportation, when it wasn't in service making our deliveries.  With the Dyer's Cleaners logo on the side, I'd once looked at the van as advertising on wheels.  To my regret I'd discovered several months back that advertising yourself everywhere you go can be downright conspicuous sometimes, not to mention incriminating, when the van had shown up at a crime scene. I drove past the exclusive Cherry Creek Mall, turned south on University, and eventually wound my way to a cluster of shops in South Denver with a totally different style than Cherry Creek.  They were in a neighborhood shopping area that has been turned into an eclectic bunch...

Product details

• Authors: Dolores Johnson
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.09.1998
• EAN: 9780440223559
• ISBN: 978-0-440-22355-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 178 mm x 15 mm