Blessed freedom will be hers if Suzanne can find wealthy husbands for her two volatile, marriage-minded younger sisters. Mama has done the research, and four men at a hotel conference are the targets: Harry Bellemore --dashing, freedom-loving playboy George Crump --prim, proper, with a mother to match Derek Barnesforth --boyish, charming Englishman Philippe Juneau --French, elegant, private Betty is prone to outlandish behavior, Nancy, more cautious, is in competition with Betty, and sensible Suzanne is at her wit's end! Carefully laid plans go awry as complications ensue, and romance follows a different path, in this witty novel.
Eve Nelson is thirty, head of sales at the New York money management firm of Williams, Wetcliff, and Snell, and bored with her career. She would consider marriage, which would thrill her insistent, widowed mother, but as a "plain Jane" who gets the respect, but not the eye, of men like handsome Bill Wetcliff, her chances are slim. She is outraged when George Snell, her fan and mentor, explains he is temporarily embarrassing her with a handsome male secretary and assigning her to supervision of national plans to attract and service the accounts of senior citizens, the top priority of Frederick Willard Williams, who has come out of his twenty-year forced retirement in Bora Bora and, at age ninety, once again has controlling interest in W.W.& S. Into a large pot place one skirt-chaser, one sexy, easy mark, one independent "plain Jane," one love-sick underling, and one bossy mother. Stir in one hell-on-wheels, clever, stubborn, vengeful, five-times-married, woman-hating, ancient curmudgeon and step away. The lid is about to blow, and heaven help anyone who's in its path!
FASHION & MURDER! It's 1927 -The Jazz Age -The Flapper Age. A model is murdered at a NYC fashion house, and two female suspects are determined to discover the murderer.
Blessed freedom will be hers if Suzanne can find wealthy husbands for her two volatile, marriage-minded younger sisters. Mama has done the research, and four men at a hotel conference are the targets: Harry Bellemore --dashing, freedom-loving playboy George Crump --prim, proper, with a mother to match Derek Barnesforth --boyish, charming Englishman Philippe Juneau --French, elegant, private Betty is prone to outlandish behavior, Nancy, more cautious, is in competition with Betty, and sensible Suzanne is at her wit's end! Carefully laid plans go awry as complications ensue, and romance follows a different path, in this witty novel.
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