ISBN: 0-88739-244-X
176 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 5/2000
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Death by Design
Majorie McCown
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.
Review: "With a clunker car, an eccentric cat, and libidinous thoughts as distractions...this [is] a meaty diversion and a winning look at behind-the-scenes Hollywood. An exemplary first novel by a former costume designer."
-Library Journal
"The ambiance and the story itself in theater ventures keep the interest, and I for one was fascinated. The inner workings and intrigues of shooting a film and the pitfalls and hurdles are all accounted for in Death by Design. . . .I had trouble putting it down."
-Joseph A. Citarella, Director of Costume Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC
Bio: 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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