Shot Through Velvet

Shot Through Velvet PDF Author: Ellen Byerrum
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101477148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian is touring a failing velvet factory in Virginia on its final day of operations-and finds one of the factory owners dead, lashed to a spool of velvet and soaked in blue dye. The workers are delighted, since they blamed the "Blue Devil" for killing their jobs. But when another nickname, the "Velvet Avenger", makes the rounds, and ribbons of blue velvet start popping up, it could be more than Lacey's job at stake-it could be her life...

Shot Through Velvet

Shot Through Velvet PDF Author: Ellen Byerrum
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101477148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian is touring a failing velvet factory in Virginia on its final day of operations-and finds one of the factory owners dead, lashed to a spool of velvet and soaked in blue dye. The workers are delighted, since they blamed the "Blue Devil" for killing their jobs. But when another nickname, the "Velvet Avenger", makes the rounds, and ribbons of blue velvet start popping up, it could be more than Lacey's job at stake-it could be her life...

Shot Through Velvet

Shot Through Velvet PDF Author: Ellen Byerrum
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ISBN: 9781322748917
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Languages : en
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Velvet

Velvet PDF Author: Mary Hooper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599909294
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry is scalding, back-breaking work and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself. Then Velvet is noticed by Madame Savoya, a famed medium, who asks Velvet to come work for her. Velvet is dazzled at first by the young yet beautifully dressed and bejewelled Madame. But Velvet soon realizes that Madame Savoya is not all that she says she is, and Velvet's very life is in danger . . . A romantic and thrillingly exciting new novel from an acclaimed and much loved historical writer for teens

The Key to Velvet

The Key to Velvet PDF Author: Lyndall Baker Landauer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595149162
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Loren Randolph returns home from a business trip to find the one hundred year old ancestral home located in a small town on the coast of California burned to the ground and a body inside identified as her husband, John. She blames herself for neglecting the grand old house, left to her by her grandmother, and for the loss of her grandmother's art collection and her many priceless antiques. Then an item that should have been in the house turns up at an auction, and Cam Montogmery, a San Francisco lawyer, appears in town looking for her husband under another name. When the local police chief shows that the body is not Loren's husband, she tries to locate him. She is shocked to hear that over a year before the fire, John quit the firm where he said he was employed. It is clear he has no intention of confiding in her and may be involved in illegal actions involving her grandmother's wealth. When Cam's apartment is blown up and an attempt on Loren's life is barely averted, the two begin to pool information to try to save themselves, find John and alleviate the chaos John has created.

The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society

The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society PDF Author: Bombay Natural History Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 988

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A Vision in Velvet

A Vision in Velvet PDF Author: Juliet Blackwell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101627980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Lily Ivory hopes to score some great vintage fashions when she buys an antique trunk full of old clothes. But she may have gotten more than she bargained for.… As soon as Lily opens the trunk, she feels strange vibrations emanating from a mysterious velvet cloak. When she tries it on, Lily sees awful visions from the past. And when the antiques dealer who sold her the cape is killed, Lily suspects a supernatural force might be behind his death. Then Lily’s familiar, Oscar the potbellied pig, disappears. Lily will do anything to get him back—including battling the spirit of a powerful witch reaching out from the past. But even with the aid of her grandmother, unmasking a killer and saving Oscar might be more than one well-intentioned sorceress can handle.

The Upholsterer and Interior Decorator

The Upholsterer and Interior Decorator PDF Author:
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Category : Interior decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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The Woman's World

The Woman's World PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
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Category : History of women
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Bullet and Shot in Indian Forest, Plain and Hill

Bullet and Shot in Indian Forest, Plain and Hill PDF Author: Charles Edward Mackintosh Russell
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Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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The Brief Luminous Flight of the Firefly

The Brief Luminous Flight of the Firefly PDF Author: Ellen Byerrum
Publisher: Lethal Black Dress Press
ISBN: 9781949582062
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Languages : en
Pages : 336

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"It's not like it's murder.""Don't kid yourself, sister. People commit all kinds of crimes for all kinds of reasons. There's murder afoot whenever money is involved."Ambitious and idealistic, Mimi Smith leaves her home out west and pauses her college career to work for the war effort in Washington, D.C. She lands an entry-level stenographer's job at the government office that oversees rationing and black-market activities, and a rented room in Alexandria, Virginia. But Mimi's got bigger plans than laboring as a mere stenographer-she has an eye on a slot as an investigator. When she breaks up a group of drunken servicemen harassing a flashily dressed woman at a dance, her instincts kick in. She saves the young woman and tries to get her back on her feet. It's soon clear that the victim, Kitty Hawkins, is what Mimi's grandmother calls a "magdalen," a lady of the evening Kitty is trying to escape that life and outrun the desperate "quivers" she feels breathing down her neck. It's June 1943, halfway through a world war that feels like it will never end. Rationing, victory gardens, and making do or doing without have all become a patriotic way of life. But the flip side of patriotism is hoarding, profiteering, theft, and black marketeering. And someone in Alexandria is murdering magdalens caught up in selling information and stolen goods. Teaming up with a skeptical local policeman and a country boy soon to enter the Navy, Mimi grapples with life, death, and a killer who has set his sights on her. Firefly is the prequel to the bestselling Crime of Fashion Mysteries, featuring Lacey Smithsonian. Set decades before Lacey plies her trade as a journalist in D.C., Firefly explores Lacey's great aunt Mimi Smith's wartime journey that brought her to Washington, the parallels between the two women, including their love of fashion and the clues people wear without knowing it, and the origins of Mimi's trunk full of mysteries, the trunk Lacey later inherits. And both Mimi and Lacey discover they have a passion for finding out how the story ends.