Murder a la Mode

The staff of&,nbsp,Style&,nbsp,magazine in London are in the feverishly exciting period just before the latest Paris fashion news is to break. They have debated late into the night about which photographs to feature, but only one of them knows that the stakes are so high that an employee will be dead by morning… Inspector Henry Tibbett must act quickly to save the life of his niece, a beautiful&,nbsp,Style&,nbsp,model, who is in danger of becoming the next victim of a crime as ingenious as the creations of haute couture itself. ____________ PRAISE FOR THE INSPECTOR TIBBETT MYSTERIES 'One of the deftest practitioners of the British procedural detective novel'&,nbsp,New York Times 'A queen of crime … her name can be mentioned in the same breath as Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh'&,nbsp,Daily Herald 'Gripping… very neatly worked out'&,nbsp,Evening Standard 'Intricate plots, ingenious murders, and skillfully drawn, often hilarious, characters'&,nbsp,Mystery Scene 'Really good detection'&,nbsp,The Spectator 'Ingenious and elegant, with nary a trace of formula'&,nbsp,Kirkus 'Patricia Moyes tells great tales in fascinating settings, and her Scotland Yard detective, Henry Tibbett, is perhaps the most believable of anyone detecting in this decade'&,nbsp,Los Angeles Times 'For classic detection, [Moyes] is far and away best'&,nbsp,Times Literary Supplement