title: The Masque of the Red Dress (The Crime of Fashion Mysteries) (Volume 11)
author:  Ellen Byerrum 
description: ELLEN BYERRUM is a novelist, a playwright, a reporter, a former Washington, D.C., journalist, and a graduate of private investigator school in Virginia. Her Crime of Fashion mystery series features a savvy, stylish female sleuth named Lacey Smithsonian. Lacey is a reluctant fashion reporter in Washington D.C., which she lovingly refers to as The City Fashion Forgot. Two Crime of Fashion novels, Killer Hair and Hostile Makeover, have been filmed. The Woman in the Dollhouse is Byerrums first suspense thriller. She anticipates exploring Tennysons continuing odyssey in a sequel. Byerrum has also penned a middle-grade mystery, The Children Didnt See Anything, the first in a projected series starring the precocious twelve-year-old Bresette twins. Her plays, A Christmas Cactus and Gumshoe Rendezvous, are published by Samuel French Inc. and written under the pen name Eliot Byerrum. Follow Ellen Byerrum on Facebook and Twitter and on her website at ellenbyerrum.com. Her books are available through booksellers and Amazon. Her YouTube Channel was inspired by her readers interest in the Fashion Bites penned by her Crime of Fashion protagonist, Lacey Smithsonian. These short YouTube videos offer Byerrums practical fashion advice and humorous style commentary: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvnouFJdA-CTxwzY25gsncA
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  # Lady Rosamond's Secret
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Rebecca Agatha Armour
  
  
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  * [INTRODUCTION.](laro_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER I. OLD GOVERNMENT HOUSE.](laro_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER II. AMID THE HOUSEHOLD](laro_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER III. AN EVENING IN OFFICERS' MESS-ROOM.](laro_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER IV. LADY ROSAMOND'S REVERIE.](laro_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER V. CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES, ETC.](laro_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VI. ST. JOHN'S EVE.](laro_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VII. THE DISCLOSURE.](laro_split_9.html#1_0_9)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VIII. BEREFORD CASTLE.](laro_split_10.html#1_0_10)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER IX. MEMORABLE SCENES OF AUTUMN, 1825.](laro_split_11.html#1_0_11)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER X. THE INTERVIEW.](laro_split_12.html#1_0_12)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER XI. FREDERICTON: ITS BUILDINGS, PUBLIC
  
  
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  * [CHAPTER XII. CHANGE.](