NYPD detective Ben Tolliver tracks a killer with a taste for expensive call girls When the escort service sends Caroline to the Plaza, she dreams of a handsome client with an open wallet. Instead, she is greeted by the businessman’s assistant, who insists on vetting the girl before she can start work. At her command, Caroline undresses, turns around, and feels something tighten around her throat. Homicide detective Ben Tolliver is surprised to get called in for a murder at the Plaza. Though Midtown may not be his beat, sex crimes are, and this one is especially chilling. Caroline was strangled, her face and body coated with grotesque makeup. The murder is baffling enough, but when the dead girl’s millionaire father gets involved, Tolliver’s investigation threatens to erupt into a circus where the main attraction is a killer who paints women like clowns.
Spenser had a simple job-protect an art scholar during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting. No one was supposed to die. But the scholar had secrets no one knew, and uncovering them will endanger Spenser as well.
An illustrated guide to the colorful painted Victorian homes of San Francisco.
Watkins Glen , N.Y .: The American Life Foundation , 1978 . Barber , George F. George F. Barber's Cottage Souvenir Number Two . With a new Introduction by Michael A. Tomlan . Watkins Glen , N.Y .: The American Life Foundation , 1982 .
The great photographs show us, and the delightful text and captions tell us, how San Francisco's Painted Ladies have enjoyed an astonishing renaissance.
In 1978, a landmark book about San Francisco's Victorian houses sparked a revolution known as The Colorist Movement. Painted Ladies became the bible for the restoration and rejuvenation of Victorians...
Now, eleven years after the original Painted Ladies these authors feel it is the perfect time to take their thousands of readers back to San Francisco and give them a...
A tour of the astonishing and stunning newly painted Victorian homes now beautifying all of the United States as ancestors of the original Painted Ladies of San Francisco! 172 full-color...
How to paint and decorate elaborately.
America's Painted Ladies
Lavallee's watercolors feature highly stylized characters, whimsical and happy, and dressed in vibrant colors.