
A relic of Manhattan's Gilded Age, when Edith Wharton and
Henry James chronicled its inhabitants, the Erich Bruel
House on Gramercy Park contained three floors of glorious
art-and one Christmas corpse. While the mansion was being
decorated with antique ornaments, and preparations were
being made for a lavish holiday party, someone killed the
obnoxious art historian Dr. Roger Shambley. Lieutenant Sigrid Harald of the New York Police Department
comes up with a long list of suspects, and must sort
through all sorts of motives, including academic rivalry,
infidelity, art fraud, and good old-fashioned spite.
Unless Sigrid can wrap up this homicide before the killer
strikes again, her romantic white Christmas is going to be
splashed with crimson. -The News and Observer, Raleigh
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