A Dress to Die For

by Dolores Johnson

Book Overview

Everything has come out in the wash for artist Mandy Dyer since she inherited Dyer's Cleaners. Her divorce is behind her, her future is secure, her heart is healed. Mandy's friendship with Kate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568658982
• ISBN13: 9781568658988
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Dell 1998/98
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Silly

Who would kill someone over a dress worth a few grand? Same old Mandy Dyer mystery.

Typical Dolores...

This is another typical Mandy Dyer mystery. Something starts out at the cleaners and Mandy gets roped into a murder to solve. I do love how cleverly Ms Johnson works the cleaners into the mystery (this effort is a little better than some of her past books). I did find this one a little more confusing because Mandy seemed to be going everywhere all the time and there were a lot of shady characters to read through, but I did enjoy it a great deal! Check it out!

Another top drawer amateur lady detective!

Granted, she may not be Holmes, Marlowe, Maigret, or even Miss Marple! And where would you think this heroine works? Believe it or not, in a dry cleaning store! When a friend discovers a very rare 1920's dress, and wants to have it cleaned up, murder is unfortunately afoot! With all the humor, wit, and who-dunnit atmosphere you would expect in the swelling genre of lady sleuths, this series is among the top!

A Really Fun Read

I enjoyed this book so much I will buy the rest of hers.

This is the first book from this author I have read.

I loved the story line, I just wish the ending had more oomph !like the rest of the book did.I thought the ending just fizzeled out and I was alittle disappointed. I loved the characters and the plot of the book, I just wish the ending would have had more "bang" to it.

A funn read

In Denver, Kate Bosworth charges into Dyer's Cleaners to tell her friend Mandy Dyer about the incredible purchase she just made. Kate has bought a Fortuny original, worth over $5,000, for $10 at the local flea market. Though Kate runs a classical clothing store, Past Perfect fashions, this is one dress that was not for sale. She asks Mandy to clean the dress.Three days later, Mandy worries when the avid Kate had not returned to claim her prize possession. She goes to Kate's home, only to find her friend dead and a piece of the cleaning ticket remaining in sight. Mandy learns that a man already tried to pick up the dress, but her help told the man that the dress was not ready. Though feeling a bit woozy from her Kate's untimely death, Mandy begins to investigate why a dress, even a vintage one like a Fortuny, could lead to murder.What makes the Mandy Dyer amateur sleuth tales so much fun is they are droll and irreverent as they take the reader on a cozy-like mystery tour of the Mile High City. The third novel in this delightful series, A DRESS TO DIE FOR, is like the previous two books (HUNG TO DIE and TAKEN TO THE CLEANERS), a fun reading experience, starring a delightful sleuth, who is as clean as the Rocky Mountain air. Fans of female amateur sleuths and regional cozies, as well as dry cleaning store owners and workers will love this series. Harriet Klausner