The dead woman wore red. Gossip columnist ethel lambston knew everything about everybody who was somebody---so there were more than enough suspects in her murder. But for neeve kearny, owner of an expensive madison avenu...The dead woman wore red. Gossip columnist ethel lambston knew everything about everybody who was somebody---so there were more than enough suspects in her murder. But for neeve kearny, owner of an expensive madison avenue boutique, the killing of one of her best customers had eerie echoes of another death that occurred many years earlier---the murder of her own mother.