Includes an excerpt from the author's The secret lives of fortunate wives (p. [305]-319).

"Zany super-sleuth Bubbles Yablonsky probes the murder of a high school principal while dispatching (with muddled aplomb) nosy cops, a needy ex-husband, and marriage-minded Steve Stiletto." "Bubbles has wowed thousands of fans with her investigative savvy, high-energy adventures, and original beauty products readers can make at home. Now her antics land her in jail with a murder suspect named Crazy Popeye, who grants Bubbles an exclusive interview shortly before keeling over herself."

"Popeye had been wrongly accused of killing beloved Principal Schmidt, making Bubbles's interview notes a hot commodity among a romance-obsessed police detective, a Polish mafioso, and a dentist with an apparent foot fetish. Meanwhile, Bubbles's slimy ex-husband, Dan, demands her help in getting him out of major hot water while longtime boyfriend Stiletto asks if she'll pose as his fiancee in order to stave off an overseas job transfer. When he plunks a Harry Winston rock (even better than one from Service Merchandise!) on Bubbles's finger, only the specter of an all-can-you-can-eat pierogi wedding buffet down at the Polish-American Club, the inevitable result if her mother LuLu finds out, stops Bubbles from blurting out "Yes!""

"Juggling escapes and masquerades in Bubbles Betrothed, our not-so-scatterbrained bleached-blonde once again flits between crime scenes with unflappable verve. Like us, Bubbles frequently messes up, but she always pulls herself back onto her tottering high heels and heads back into the fray."--BOOK JACKET.

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