'My dear Inspector, this is simply nonsense. Girls don’t murder each other in respectable dress shops.'

Life for the staff of the West End boutique Christophe et Cie is hard enough with all the pressures of delivering the ambitious Mr. Bevan’s vision – and then comes murder, a poisoning via the toxic crystals of hat-cleaner, pitching haute couture into heinous crime.

Faced with a fashionable collection of overwrought designers, buttoned-up models, downtrodden sales girls and tyrannical middle-managers, the dashing Inspector Charlesworth of Scotland Yard must disentangle workplace grudges from deadly motives before the killer can make a trend of murder. First published in 1941, Brand’s debut mystery is brimming with the caustic wit, ingenious misdirection and ruthless twists that would later earn her a place among the queens of classic crime fiction.

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