Murder a la Mode - Softcover

Sellars, Eleanore Kelly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616463996 ISBN 13: 9781616463991

Publisher: Coachwhip Publications, 2017

Synopsis

There were all the makings of murder at Martin and Lissa Cole’s fashionable dinner party on that fatal night.  On the surface there were smiles and good cheer, but behind the clever animated expressions that masked the faces of those powerful men and women lay greed and jealously, fear and arrogance and ruthlessness.

Set against the background of the executive offices of a large Fifth Avenue department store, this tale of subtle intrigue and calculated murder moves with swiftness and precision, as deal succeeds deal and death follows death.  Readers are immersed in the inner world of merchandising fashion, learning the ways of models and buyers and promoters, watching from behind the scenes extravagant private showings and sitting in on the councils of high-powered executives—all as a cold-blooded killer moves remorselessly toward the completion of an intricate and deadly design.

Murder a la Mode was first published in 1941, as a Red Badge $1000 Prize Detective Novel. This edition includes a biographical introduction by golden-age mystery historian Curtis Evans. See more classic mystery reprints at CoachwhipBooks.com.

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Review

"Mrs. Sellars tells her story very deftly indeed, dramming it with suspense right up to the last page. Her first-hand knowledge of her background is obvious: she knows the chatter, the habits and the problems of an advertising department. And when she writes about clothes, she writes like an authority and not like a novelist lost for an adjective. It's a rarely touched field for mysteries, and in 'Murder a la Mode,' it's done up brown."-Maxine Garrison, The Pittsburgh Press

Edition details

• Publisher: Coachwhip Publications
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1616463996
• ISBN 13: 9781616463991
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 210