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Head Case Beate Sirota Gordon making it neither a prequelWhen Joanna Hayworth visits Bradley Stroden, a onetime prot g of legendary costume designer Edith Head, she expects to find closets bulging with drool worthy gowns to stock her Portland, Oregon, vintage clothing store. Instead, she finds a corpse. With movie costumes as bait, Joanna investigates why Stroden was murdered. Could it be tied to the tell all Hollywood memoir he was writing? Or to a midcentury film noir that was mysteriously yanked before