![]() ![]() Later when Detective Broadway Lamont arrives on the scene - whom she constantly runs into - notices that Magda is stabbed as well. Shortly after she dies taking a promise from Lacey that he would indeed find the corset. However, Lacey finds her in between all her baubles lying on her sofa mumbling and commanding her to "Find the corset" even though she is poisoned. Magda Rousseau was a master corsetiere, one of the last practicing almost dying art of accentuating (or creating) the alluring curves of the female form with laces and stays. Lacey sounds more and more like Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote - wherever Jessica goes, a murder happens and promptly she gets involved in solving it. She tangles herself again in a mystery involving a lost corset stolen from a Russian princess in the 1912 massacre and murder of her good friend. a city she keeps calling as "The City Fashion Forgot". ![]() Lacey Smithsonian - the heroine of the series - works for the paper The Eye Street Observer as a fashion reporter in Washington, D.C. Raiders of the Lost Corset is the fourth instalment in the Crime of Fashion Series by Ellen Byerrum published in July of 2006. Recommendation: An easy mystery read that is weaved through the world of fashion, style and dressing from the view point of a fashion stylist. ![]()
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