Sunday, May 31, 2020

Sounds like Hollywood could have used her

The second Mrs. Carterette did not match her Edwardian name. She did not look like a Kitty. She was so fair that without her make-up she would have seemed bleached. Her figure was well-disciplined and her face had been skillfully drawn up into a beautifully cared-for mask. Her greatest asset was her acquired inscrutability. This, of itself, made a femme fatale of Kitty Cartarette. She had, as it were, been manipulated into a menace.

(from Scales of Justice, by Dame Ngaio Marsh)

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