Death by Design - Softcover

McCown, Marjorie

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ISBN 10: 088739244X ISBN 13: 9780887392443

Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co, 2000

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Faye Symington is a feature film costume designer who has just been nominated for an Academy Award, and that’s when the trouble begins. An escalating campaign of anonymous harassment drives Faye’s daughter to hire private detective Maggie McGrath, but Faye is a woman generally disliked—and with good reason. She’s arrogant, obsessively self-centered, and capable of cruelty. And Maggie comes away from her first interview with the designer with the uneasy feeling that death threats may be a ploy instigated by Faye herself to drum up publicity for her campaign to win the Oscar. But then Faye is actually murdered in her office at Sony Studios, bludgeoned to death with her Emmy statuette, and along with the glitter of Tinseltown comes more darkness than Maggie ever bargained for.

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About the Author:

MARJORIE MCCOWN has been a costume designer for her entire professional life, first in New York as a theater/opera stage designer and later for film and television. Death by Design is her first book.

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The daughter of an Oscar-nominated Hollywood costume designer hires private eye Maggie McGrath, a former New York City cop, to investigate threats received by her mother. Before Maggie gets very far, someone murders Faye Symington, the designer. Because of Faye's singularly hateful disposition, suspects abound, and when Maggie noses around, one of them trashes her place. With a clunker car, an eccentric cat, and libidinous thoughts as distractions, Maggie still succeeds, making this a meaty diversion and a winning look at behind-the-scenes Hollywood. An exemplary first novel by a former costume designer.
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