Black Rubber Dress: A Sam Jones Novel
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ISBN: 0609804383 / Publisher: Crown Publishers, May 1999
During the unveiling of her latest artistic creation at a London bank, artist-turned-sleuth Sam Jones becomes embroiled with a successful young banker as she investigates the murder at the party of a man found crushed to death under her masterpiece
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PRAISE FOR LAUREN HENDERSON AND THE SAM JONES SERIES“Wickedly funny . . .”—New York Times Book Review“Sharply intelligent. . . . Hipper than hip.”—Denver Rocky Mountain NewsSexy, savvy sculptor-turned-sleuth Sam Jones attracts trouble like she does men. When her sculpture Thing III is unveiled at a swank reception in the atrium of a London bank, a dead body crashes the party. From there, events take a distinctly dangerous turn. Our rubber-clad heroine hardly suspects that in a few days she’ll be embroiled in a hot affair with a BMW-driving, Kensington-dwelling stockbroker—the shame of it!Forced to hang out with a pair of spoiled, anorexic rich girls and their unsavory entourage of “friends” as she unravels the facts behind the murder, Sam finds herself unwillingly pulled into a twisted world of drugs, blackmail, and trust funds—one that seems to spell disaster for high society’s darlings. By the end of the week even the usually tough-as-nails Sam is running scared. She needs to get to the bottom of it all—before she turns up dead herself.
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