Saturday, May 3, 2014

Dressed to Kill

Kate O'Donnell has been assigned by her agency to learn how to photograph models.  Meantime her friend, DS Harry Barnard is busy investigating the death of a young girl outside a jazz club in Soho.  Kate finds out that the assistant to the photographer who is apprenticing with has been recruiting young girls to be models from schools.  She decides to share this information with Barnard.

Kate gets an offer to work for an opposing modelling firm.  She is hesitant, yet at the same time interested as the offer comes from the cousin of the photographer she is apprenticing with.   Barnard has been involved in a raid on the jazz club.  They are hoping to find a connection to the murder of the girl.

Kate is attacked on the steps of her flat by the assistant of the photographer one evening.  Her employer tells her to stick it out until the apprenticeship is done.  Barnard, on the other hand, has different ideas.  He decides to turn to his underworld sources for information.

When the body of the photographer's assistant is found with his throat slashed, DCI Keith Jackson wants answers, now.  Was the photographer and his assistant pimping the girls?  There is a lot more going on behind the scenes than both Kate and Barnard know.

Author Patricia Hall brings a quick climax to this murder mystery.  A good, quick read.

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