{"product_id":"dead-fashion-girl-fred-vermorel-9781907222719","title":"Dead Fashion Girl: A Situationist Detective Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eA crime and a six-decade cover-up: the death of a fashion designer in the cesspit of vice and violence that was 1950s London.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1954, Jean Mary Townsend was strangled with her own scarf and stripped of her underwear but not sexually assaulted. The subsequent police investigation was bungled, leading to a six-decade cover-up, ensuring that this twenty-one-year-old fashion designer was effectively killed twice: first bodily, and then as her significance and her memory were erased. Fred Vermorel's forensic, troubling (and trouble-making) investigation digs deep into Jean Townsend's life and times, and her transgressive bohemian milieu. It disentangles the lies and bluffs that have obscured this puzzling case for over half a century and offers a compelling solution to her murder and the official secrecy surrounding it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than just a true crime story, Vermorel's investigation deploys Townsend's death as a wild card methodology for probing the 1950s: a cesspit of vice and violence, from coprophiles to bombsite gangs and flick knives in the cinema. Densely illustrated with archival material, \u003ci\u003eDead Fashion Girl \u003c\/i\u003eis a heavily researched, darkly curious expos  of London's 1950s society that touches on celebrity, royalty, the postwar establishment, and ultimately, tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fred Vermorel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1907222715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781907222719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Strange Attractor Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.20d","brand":"Fred Vermorel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984473522431,"sku":"9781907222719","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d2a06f10-e821-4e19-9574-6c51a46caa67.jpg?v=1683272511","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dead-fashion-girl-fred-vermorel-9781907222719","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}