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Tells the story of murder, money, beauty, and good taste at the California headquarters of a lavish design magazine, featuring amateur detectives Pierpont Tree and China Carlyle
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Paige Rense plotted and executed the rise of <i>Architectural Digest</i> to the pinnacle it sits on today--the top of the highly competitive field of international design publications. For several years she was the only person to hold the position of editor in chief of three magazines simultaneously--<i>Architectural Digest</i>, <i>Bon Appetit</i>, and <i>Geo</i>. She has also edited eleven <i>Architectural Digest</i> books, including <i>The Worlds of</i>...series, and is the author of <i>Decorating for Celebrities</i>. A longtime resident of Santa Barbara, Rense now divides her time between Los Angeles, New York, and Vermont, where she lives with her husband, the artist Kenneth Noland.
Paige Rense was the only person to hold the position of editor in chief of three magazines simultaneously - Architectural Digest, Bone Appetit, and Geo for several years.
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nt Tree and China Carlyle: he's the devastatingly handsome and urbane scion of an old Santa Barbara family; she's a ravishingly beautiful flame-haired film star who retired at the peak of her career. He minds the family ranch; she dabbles in writing. Together, they investigate murders.<br><br>And the murder of Beau Paxton leaves Pier and China with quite a crowd of suspects: the twin brothers who own Manor House--and who held a multimillion-dollar insurance policy on Beau's life; the beautiful young managing editor, the real brains behind Beau's flashy, figurehead position; the society gossip columnist who coveted Beau's position for herself; Beau's roommate and "uncle," who argued with him publicly the night of the murder; and a whole world of designers and dealers, players and wanna-be's, high rollers and lowlifes, whose desires and ambitions make <i>Manor House</i> a magazine to die for. <br><br>With the kind of knowledge and attention to
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