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Rent Shot Through Velvet: A Crime of Fashion Mystery
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: Feb 2011
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $7.99
Ages: 18 - 17 Pages: 336
Synopsis
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.
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