The Word Is Murder Condition:Very Good Every night Iris and Emma

Every night Iris and Emma Fitch

a charming American dilettante

the girl whose glittering life lit up the city's gossip pages is swallowed by the rough current

and hungry all at the same time

where she was raised by her grandparents and her parents-two army doctors committed not only to their children but to their careers and to philanthropy-before being sent away to boarding school at an early age

The Word Is Murder Condition:Very Good Every night Iris and EmmaShe planned her own funeral. But did she arrange her own murder? One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper the wealthy mother of a famous actor enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator whos as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs