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Lacey is busting with excitement for her first trip to France. She’ll be with her friend Magda Rousseau, corset creator for D.C.’s wealthiest (and kinkiest) citizens. And—best of all—the trip’s on her newspaper’s dime, since she’ll supposedly be there to report on haute couture. The real reason for the trip, though, is the Rousseau family mystère: the whereabouts of a lost corset lined with jewels supposedly stolen from Russia after the assassination of Czar Nicholas’s family. But just before the big adventure, someone poisons Magda. Could it have something to do with the priceless corset? To find out, Lacey must follow a thread from Normandy to New Orleans....
About the Author
Ellen Byerrum, author of the best selling Crime of Fashion mysteries, is branching out from her comic adult mysteries with a new children's picture book, SHERLOCKTOPUS HOLMES: Eight Arms of the Law. This book will be published April 20, 2020. Told with clever rhymes and meter, this children's picture book also includes amusing definitions that rhyme and introduces some basic mystery concepts. It's bright and colorful and features illustrations by talented artist Jacqueline Berkman-Glatigny. While SHERLOCKTOPUS is a departure from her thriller, THE WOMAN IN THE DOLLHOUSE, and her Crime of Fashion Mysteries, Byerrum is busy writing a prequel to the Lacey Smithsonian Crime of Fashion Mysteries and updating her early series books.After retrieving her publishing rights, Byerrum has been relaunching the early volumes of her Crime of Fashion Mysteries in brand-new ebook and trade paperback editions. (See below.) The first five books are currently available as ebooks on various platforms, including Kindle. But never fear, there are more to come. In addition, Byerrum is continuing the series under her own imprint, Lethal Black Dress Press.Byerrum's THE MASQUE OF THE RED DRESS, the 11th and latest book in her Crime of Fashion Mysteries, is now available as an ebook and as a trade paperback! MASQUE continues Lacey Smithsonian's adventures as a fashion reporter in Washington, D.C., as she follows the trail of a dangerous crimson costume through the local theatre scene, where stagecraft and spycraft have a lot in common.And for all those readers who want to see more FASHION BITES--the humorous fashion advice in the Crime of Fashion mysteries--she has launched a YouTube Channel, "Ellen Byerrum's Fashion Bites." It's funny, it's fresh, it's Friday Fashion Bites! There is a link address below, or simply Google Ellen Byerrum and YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvnouFJdA-CTxwzY25gsncAByerrum also writes plays under the pen name Eliot Byerrum, and she is a former Washington D.C. journalist. In the pursuit of research for her books, she has toured closets at the Smithsonian, traveled to a dying velvet factory, and attended private investigator school in the Commonwealth of Virginia, earning a PI registration in that state. * * * Times have been changing in the publishing world for quite a while now, and I am delighted to announce a big change of my own: the relaunch of my Crime of Fashion Mysteries. This heady challenge is possible because I reacquired my publishing rights to the first nine COF books. The series (and my relaunch) begins with KILLER HAIR and DESIGNER KNOCKOFF, which were originally published in 2003 and 2004 by Penguin Putnam, now Penguin Random House. Also available on Kindle are HOSTILE MAKEOVER, GRAVE APPAREL, and RAIDERS OF THE LOST CORSET.While it was exciting to be ushered into print by one of the Big Five traditional publishers, it
