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PRAISE FOR LAUREN HENDERSON AND THE SAM JONES SERIES “Wickedly funny . . .”—New York Times Book Review “Sharply intelligent. . . . Hipper than hip.”—Denver Rocky Mountain News Sexy, savvy sculptor-turned-sleuth Sam Jones attracts trouble like she does men. When her sculpture Thing III is unveiled at a swank reception in the atrium of a London bank, a dead body crashes the party. From there, events take a distinctly dangerous turn. Our rubber-clad heroine hardly suspects that in a show more few days she’ll be embroiled in a hot affair with a BMW-driving, Kensington-dwelling stockbroker—the shame of it! Forced to hang out with a pair of spoiled, anorexic rich girls and their unsavory entourage of “friends” as she unravels the facts behind the murder, Sam finds herself unwillingly pulled into a twisted world of drugs, blackmail, and trust funds—one that seems to spell disaster for high society’s darlings. By the end of the week even the usually tough-as-nails Sam is running scared. She needs to get to the bottom of it all—before she turns up dead herself. show lessTags
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This mystery story is a wonder. Sam Jones is an artist in London who has had some opportunities to solve mysteries before (this is third in the series). This time she has gotten roped into the high-flying world of corporate greed when she sells a sculpture to decorate the lobby of the bankf Mowbray Steiner. The cocktail party celebrating its unveiling is interrupted when one of the business executives is found dead with the sculpture fallen on top of him.
Sam is not accustomed to this upper crust of society, but she is a good observer, and soon is attempting to find out what happened. In the course of this search, she meets the twin daughters of the chairman of the bank, Suki and Belinda, the top executives, including the very attractive show more Sebastian Shaw, and the security men on the front desk, one of whom dies unexpectedly, hinting at blackmail.
Sam herself is the epitome of a free woman, independent, sexually secure, dazzling in the black rubber dress of the title, quick-witted and curious. I am determined to find the beginning of the series, and follow her wherever she goes. show less
Sam is not accustomed to this upper crust of society, but she is a good observer, and soon is attempting to find out what happened. In the course of this search, she meets the twin daughters of the chairman of the bank, Suki and Belinda, the top executives, including the very attractive show more Sebastian Shaw, and the security men on the front desk, one of whom dies unexpectedly, hinting at blackmail.
Sam herself is the epitome of a free woman, independent, sexually secure, dazzling in the black rubber dress of the title, quick-witted and curious. I am determined to find the beginning of the series, and follow her wherever she goes. show less
Sam Jones is a confident, independent, and highly skilled sculptress/engineer whose latest work (a huge metal monstrosity she calls simply "Thing III") has sold *very* well. She becomes embroiled in a murder mystery after her sculpture crushes someone to death. These are pure delicious crack.
First and best of the Sam Jones books.
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- Canonical title
- Black Rubber Dress
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Sam Jones; Belinda Fine; David Stronge; Sebastian Shaw; Charles de Groot; Richard Fine (show all 9); Suki Fine; Genevive Planchet; Simon Grenville
- Important places
- London, England, UK
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- 187
- Popularity
- 175,198
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.44)
- Languages
- Dutch, English, French
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 1
