Muotimurha

by Patricia Moyes

Other authorsAnna-Liisa Laine (Translator)
Paperback, 1993

Status

Available

Call number

823.912

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Publication

Porvoo Helsinki Juva WSOY 1993.

Description

The renowned British author of Death on the Agenda delivers a "stunning finish with a return-from-the-dead trap. Very lively and zestful" (Observer). No question, one of the real delights of this series is all the early-1960s clotheshorses who go traipsing through the pages, and this time around, they're front and center. Moyes in fact worked as an editor at British Vogue, and her familiarity with the London fashion scene is put to good use in this tale of Style magazine, feverishly consumed with the upcoming Paris shows, and in fact so focused on hemlines and handbags and haircuts-oh my!-that they don't really notice that a member of the staff is looking a little under the weather. A little six feet under, in fact. Enter Inspector Tibbett, who knows very little about fashion, but quite a lot about solving crime.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member cmbohn
British fashion magazine Style is just finishing up their big issue featuring the latest fashions from Paris. But one the writers faces her own deadline. Her dead body is found in her office the next morning, her reviews only halfway written. Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett is thrust into the fashion
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scene as he tracks down a killer. He'd better hurry, since a member of his own family is the next target.

I enjoyed this one. The characters were fun. But there was a lot of talking at the very end.
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1963

Physical description

313 p.; 18 cm

ISBN

9510186880 / 9789510186886
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