A Disguise to Die For

Zusatztext Praise for A Disguise to Die For: Meet Margo Tamblyn! the newest! savviest! smartest heroine to join the cozy mystery world. Weave in a quirky cast of characters! a fascinating setting! a fast-paced plot! and yummy recipes! and you have a thoroughly appealing whodunit that will keep you guessing all night long.Kate Carlisle! New York Times bestselling author Both madcap and moving! A DISGUISE TO DIE FOR has the right amount of humor! poignancy and danger for a most irresistible whodunit. Highly recommended!Naomi Hirahara! Edgar Award-winning author of Grave on Grand Avenue "A fresh! funny voice! irresistible charactersand oh! the costumes! No disguising the fact that Diane Vallere's new cozy is a winner." Lucy Burdette! national bestselling author of Fatal Reservations Informationen zum Autor Diane Vallere also writes the Lefty-nominated Material Witness series including Suede to Rest and Crushed Velvet , as well as the Mad for Mod and Style & Error series. She has had a lifelong love of playing dress up, and believes the lines between fashion and costume can (should?) be blurred on a regular basis. At age ten, Diane launched her own detective agency and has maintained a passion for shoes, clues, and clothes ever since. Klappentext Someone is dressed to kill in the debut Costume Shop Mystery from the national bestselling author of the Material Witness mysteries. No sooner does former magician's assistant Margo Tamblyn return home to Proper City! Nevada! to run Disguise DeLimit! her family's costume shop! than she gets her first big order. Wealthy nuisance Blitz Manners needs forty costumes for a detective-themed birthday bash. As for Blitz himself! his Sherlock Holmes is to die for-literally-when! in the middle of the festivities! Margo's friend and party planner Ebony Welles is caught brandishing a carving knife over a very dead Blitz. For Margo! clearing Ebony's name is anything but elementary! especially after Ebony flees town. Now Margo is left to play real-life detective in a town full of masked motives! cloaked secrets! and veiled vendettas. But as she soon learns! even a killer disguise can't hide a murderer in plain sight for long. INCLUDES RECIPES AND COSTUME IDEAS! FIRST IN A NEW SERIES! Acknowledgments Praise for Diane Vallere Berkley Prime Crime titles by Diane Vallere Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Disguise DeLimit Costume List: Blitz Manners's Detective Party Recipes Costume Ideas Special Excerpt from Masking for Trouble Chapter 1 GIVE ME THE knife, demanded the cranky man in the wheelchair. I don't think so, I said. I'm not playing, Margo. Give me the knife. Why? I already told you I could do it. It's just going to take longer than I thought. That's because you can't climb the ladder in those silly boots. Why are you so worried about my go-go boots? You bought them for me. Besides, you're the one wearing two different shoes. My dadthe cranky man in the wheelchairlooked down at his feet. He wore one brown wing tip and one black. I pay that nurse too much to end up leaving the house wearing two different shoes, he said. A...

Praise for A Disguise to Die For:

“Meet Margo Tamblyn, the newest, savviest, smartest heroine to join the cozy mystery world. Weave in a quirky cast of characters, a fascinating setting, a fast-paced plot, and yummy recipes, and you have a thoroughly appealing whodunit that will keep you guessing all night long.”—Kate Carlisle, New York Times bestselling author
 
“Both madcap and moving, A DISGUISE TO DIE FOR has the right amount of humor, poignancy and danger for a most irresistible whodunit. Highly recommended!—Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author of Grave on Grand Avenue
 
"A fresh, funny voice, irresistible characters—and oh, the costumes! No disguising the fact that Diane Vallere's new cozy is a winner." —Lucy Burdette, national bestselling author of Fatal Reservations

Auteur

Diane Vallere also writes the Lefty-nominated Material Witness series including Suede to Rest and Crushed Velvet, as well as the Mad for Mod and Style & Error series. She has had a lifelong love of playing dress up, and believes the lines between fashion and costume can (should?) be blurred on a regular basis.  At age ten, Diane launched her own detective agency and has maintained a passion for shoes, clues, and clothes ever since.

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Someone is dressed to kill in the debut Costume Shop Mystery from the national bestselling author of the Material Witness mysteries.

No sooner does former magician's assistant Margo Tamblyn return home to Proper City, Nevada, to run Disguise DeLimit, her family's costume shop, than she gets her first big order. Wealthy nuisance Blitz Manners needs forty costumes for a detective-themed birthday bash. As for Blitz himself, his Sherlock Holmes is to die for-literally-when, in the middle of the festivities, Margo's friend and party planner Ebony Welles is caught brandishing a carving knife over a very dead Blitz.

For Margo, clearing Ebony's name is anything but elementary, especially after Ebony flees town. Now Margo is left to play real-life detective in a town full of masked motives, cloaked secrets, and veiled vendettas. But as she soon learns, even a killer disguise can't hide a murderer in plain sight for long.

INCLUDES RECIPES AND COSTUME IDEAS!

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!

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Acknowledgments

Praise for Diane Vallere

Berkley Prime Crime titles by Diane Vallere

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Disguise DeLimit Costume List: Blitz Manners’s Detective Party

Recipes

Costume Ideas

Special Excerpt from Masking for Trouble

Chapter 1

“GIVE ME THE knife,” demanded the cranky man in the wheelchair.

“I don’t think so,” I said.

“I’m not playing, Margo. Give me the knife.”

“Why? I already told you I could do it. It’s just going to take longer than I thought.”

“That’s because you can’t climb the ladder in those silly boots.”

“Why are you so worried about my go-go boots? You bought them for me. Besides, you’re the one wearing two different shoes.”

My dad—the cranky man in the wheelchair—looked down at his feet. He wore one brown wing tip and one black.

“I pay that nurse too much to end up leaving the house wearing two different shoes,” he said. “And this stupid chair makes everything worse. If I can get up and down the stairs okay, then I don’t need it.”

“You’re in that chair because you’re still weak. The doctors don’t want you running all over the place and having a second heart attack. And the nurse didn’t mismatch your shoes on purpose. Most of the nurses don’t expect to have such colorful patients.”

He stuck his feet out in front of him and shook his head at the sight of the mismatched shoes. “I said brown wing tips. How hard is that?”

I was pretty sure my dad wasn’t u…