Death Designs A Dress
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When murder infiltrates the glamorous world of haute couture, it stitches together a web of secrets, jealousy, and deadly ambition that no detective can ignore. Death Designs a Dress by E. M. Robinson plunges readers into the glittering yet treacherous fashion industry, where behind the elegant facades of design houses and dressmakers' ateliers, a killer stalks their prey with cold, calculated precision. The novel presents a classic whodunit premise with all the hallmarks of mid-century British crime writing — a closed social world, a cast of vivid suspects, and a puzzle that tightens with every turn of the page. Robinson crafts a narrative that balances atmospheric tension with sharp social observation, illustrating how ambition and envy can corrupt even the most beautiful of worlds. In the tradition of the Golden Age of detective fiction, Death Designs a Dress offers readers both the intellectual satisfaction of a cleverly constructed mystery and the period charm of post-war British life. For those who relish crime fiction that hides its sharpest edges beneath a silken surface, this is a title that will not disappoint — the final revelation cuts as precisely as a dressmaker's shears.
Author: E. M. Robinson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Hammond, Hammond & Company
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When murder infiltrates the glamorous world of haute couture, it stitches together a web of secrets, jealousy, and deadly ambition that no detective can ignore. Death Designs a Dress by E. M. Robinson plunges readers into the glittering yet treacherous fashion industry, where behind the elegant facades of design houses and dressmakers' ateliers, a killer stalks their prey with cold, calculated precision. The novel presents a classic whodunit premise with all the hallmarks of mid-century British crime writing — a closed social world, a cast of vivid suspects, and a puzzle that tightens with every turn of the page. Robinson crafts a narrative that balances atmospheric tension with sharp social observation, illustrating how ambition and envy can corrupt even the most beautiful of worlds. In the tradition of the Golden Age of detective fiction, Death Designs a Dress offers readers both the intellectual satisfaction of a cleverly constructed mystery and the period charm of post-war British life. For those who relish crime fiction that hides its sharpest edges beneath a silken surface, this is a title that will not disappoint — the final revelation cuts as precisely as a dressmaker's shears.