Ellen Byerrum

These Crooked Things (The Art Deco Mysteries, #2) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A corpse, a coverup, and a grievously injured wife lead a playwright and a playboy detective down a crooked path to a secret society, a long-ago death, and three potential killers of a very rich bad boy.

It's November 1934. Post-Prohibition lingers like a hangover in New York City as famous gangsters fight for headlines with local criminals, Broadway shows, and society sinners.

Amid the glitz and glamour, a man lies dead on the floor of a swanky Upper East Side apartment as his injured pregnant wife hides nearby. But there's no keeping this crime quiet, as playwright and playboy pursue a crooked path to untangle multiple would-be killers, with more than enough motives to go around.

Complications abound when Graydon's aristocratic English parents invite themselves to Esmé's place for that most American holiday-Thanksgiving. Over the turkey and stuffing, Graydon's oh-so-uppercrust father itches to involve himself in the investigation (despite his prejudice against his son's fiancé as a "woman of the theatre"), and a local mobster trying to go legit wades into the thick of it, bringing vital information on the murder. Will it arrive in time to keep our detecting duo safe from a gunman's bullet? And which gunman is the real danger?

The second mystery in the Art Deco Mysteries by Ellen Byerrum

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lethal Black Dress Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949582147
• Artikelnr.: 75586440

Autorenporträt

Ellen Byerrum is a novelist, a playwright, a reporter, a former Washington, D.C., journalist, and a graduate of private investigator school in Virginia. Her Crime of Fashion Mystery series features a savvy, stylish female sleuth named Lacey Smithsonian, a reluctant fashion reporter who solves crimes with fashion clues. The series is set in Washington D.C., which Smithsonian lovingly refers to as "The City That Fashion Forgot."

Publisher's Weekly has called Byerrum's writing "as smooth as fine-grade cashmere."

In addition to mysteries, Byerrum has also produced her first suspense thriller, The Woman in the Dollhouse. It introduces us to a young woman, Tennyson Claxton, whose mind holds the mingled memories of two very different women. Best Thrillers calls this page turner "an ingeniously crafted psychological thriller that bewitches on page one and continues to mesmerize until its shocking conclusion." Byerrum anticipates exploring Tennyson's continuing odyssey in a future novel.

More information about the author can be found on her website at www.ellenbyerrum.com and on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. She also produces short humorous pieces on fashion on her YouTube channel, Ellen Byerrum's Fashion Bites.

Author photo (c) Joe Henson