[Regan Reilly Mysteries 05] • Los Ojos De Diamante

En vísperas de la celebración del centenario de su

fundación, el "Club de los Colonizadores" atraviesa momentos

difíciles. La venerable y achacosa institución, ubicada en

el elegante Gramercy Park neoyorquino, se ha visto afectada por una serie

de sucesos tan misteriosos como siniestros: entre ellos las repentinas

muertes de dos de sus miembros más antiguos, acompañadas

por la desaparición de una valiosa colección de diamantes

que habían prometido donar al club para evitar que cerrara sus

puertas.

¿Quién mejor que Regan Reilly, la inteligente y

desenfadada detective privada, que asiste en Nueva York a una

convención de escritores de novela negra, podría

dilucidar el enigma de las sospechosas muertes y los diamantes

desparecidos?

"Regan Reilly is back in New York to attend a crime conference

organized by her celebrity-author mother. A friend, Thomas Pilsner -

the frenetic president of the Settlers' Club on Gramercy Park - calls

Regan, desperately pleading for help. Thomas is distraught over the

sudden suspicious deaths of two members of the Settlers' Club. The men

had promised to donate a cache of valuable diamonds to save the Club.

But now the diamonds are gone, the men are dead, and Thomas is a mess.

He fears the police will suspect he is at the heart of both mysteries,

and worse yet, he'll lose his job." Enter Regan. Who better than the

star of Decked, Snagged, Iced, and Twanged to solve the mystery of the

missing diamonds and suspicious deaths? Who better to contend with the

quirky characters around the Club, such as Lydia Sevatura, the

self-styled "Princess of Love," who operates a dating service, and her

butler, Maldwin Feckles, who has just opened the first school of

butlering in New York City? And who better than Carol Higgins Clark,

with her sparkling, canny prose, to keep the readers guessing to the

end "who done it"?