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Why is Lacey Smithsonian Ruining Christmas? EVERYTHING GOES WRONG for fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian this Christmas season. She tangles with "Sweatergate, " a newsroom feud over garish holiday sweaters. The food editor refuses to bake the usual seasonal treats. The office Grinch is brutally assaulted with a giant candy cane, and Lacey's only witness is a homeless child in a stolen shepherd's robe. And who's getting blamed for "ruining Chri...

FIND THE CORSET!" A dying corset maker's last words send Lacey Smithsonian across the sea on a high-stakes scavenger hunt-and a race against the old woman's killer.Magda Rousseau's dark family secret: Her grandfather had stolen the jewel-filled corset of a dead Romanov princess. Who wouldn't kill for it? The fabled lost corset would be the find-and the fashion story-of the century. For Lacey this treasure hunt also means a trip to Paris, the C...

The body was blue.Not merely wearing blue, he was blue-and not the blue pallor of death. He was sapphire from head to toe, a deep shade of mood indigo.The last velvet factory in Virginia is shutting down for good, killing off many jobs and a dying small town. Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian is there to cover its sad last day on the job. But with her own job in danger and her newspaper in deep financial trouble, this story hits a little too ...

It's not like it's murder, " Mimi told her boss."Don't kid yourself, sister. People commit all kinds of crimes for all kinds of reasons. There's murder afoot whenever money is involved."In wartime Washington, D.C., stolen sugar, illegal moonshine, ladies of the evening, and shortages of goods converge in murder.It's June 1943, halfway through a World War that feels like it will never end. Rationing, victory gardens, and making do or doing with...

STOLEN SUGAR, ILLEGAL MOONSHINE AND RATIONING converge in murder in wartime Washington, D.C. as a young woman from out West teams up with a cop and a Navy-bound country boy to trap a murderer everyone has been happy to see.

SHERLOCKTOPUS HOLMES: Eight Arms of the LawSherlocktopus Holmes, the smartest octopus in the ocean, teams up with savvy starfish Dr. Flotsam to seek young Sally's missing doll, thrown in the water by her naughty brother, Steven. Complications arise when the doll is stolen by a succession of mysterious creatures, an otter, an eel, and a squid.Following clues, Holmes and Flotsam swim through the Shark Park, the seahorse races and other dark plac...

SHERLOCKTOPUS HOLMES: Eight Arms of the LawSherlocktopus Holmes, the smartest octopus in the ocean, teams up with savvy starfish Dr. Flotsam to seek young Sally's missing doll, thrown into the water by her naughty brother Steven. Complications arise when the doll is stolen by a succession of mysterious sea creatures, an otter, an eel, and a squid. Following clues, Holmes and Flotsam swim through the Shark Park, the seahorse races and other dar...

LACEY SMITHSONIAN PROMISES her new guy, Vic, she'll try to stay out of trouble. Long enough for a big romantic weekend getaway, at least. But on Lacey's crazy Washington DC fashion beat, trouble follows her like static cling on a silk skirt. First she scores a hot interview: reality TV star Amanda Manville, whose miracle surgical makeover has morphed her into a Supermodel Diva From Hell. Amanda has enemies, secrets, stalkers, and death threats...

Welcome to Private Eye School! The homework will kill you. Lacey Smithsonian's journalism career is going nowhere fast. After collaring killers, saving lives, rescuing homeless children, and recovering priceless jewels (which she didn't get to keep), she's still stuck on the fashion beat at the third-string newspaper in Washington, D.C. (The City Fashion Forgot). She needs a "serious" beat. What's a savvy reporter to do? Why not take a private...

If you lost your memories, would you lose your soul? "In my memories, my eyes are always green." Following a devastating accident, a young woman finds herself recovering in a memory research facility near Washington, D.C., in this new psychological suspense thriller. Her eyes are brown, not green as she remembers, her memories are broken ." She struggles to recover her memory and identity. The crash, her recent past, years of her life? It's mo...

Originally published: New York: Signet, 2004.

Fashion scribe Lacey Smithsonian has never seen such a gown. This dress is crimson, flowing, fabulous, and infamous. The actress who first wore it on stage died on closing night--playing Death in 'The Masque of the Red Death' at a Russian aemigrae theatre. Is the notorious red dress cursed with bad luck? Or is the truth even stranger? It's up to Lacey and her so-called ExtraFashionary Perception to find out once and for all. If the Red Dress o...