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The Fashion in Shrouds

by Margery Allingham · 1938

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Detective Albert Campion has a talented dress designer sister with celebrated clients. Georgia Wells is a glamorous actress who exemplifies the 1930s femme fatale. Vain, stupid, and selfish, she attracts men like moths to a flame. When these men die, Albert suspects Georgia is more deliberately fatalethan alluring.

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adult
Length
long · 579 pages

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