aFormer debutante Nora Blackbird takes a job as a society page columnist to help pay the bills when her parents skip town leaving her with a land inheritance that comes with a two-million-dollar tax bill, but she finds herself on the investigative beat when she stumbles upon the murdered body of the host at her first party assignment. Nora Blackbird, society columnist and down-and-almost-out former debutante, reclaims her place within Philadelphia's...

"Nora Blackbird--pregnant at last!--is spending summer afternoons wallowing in the Bucks County pool of her best friend, Lexie Paine, who has just been released from prison. At night, Nora is covering Philadelphia's high-society events for the local newspaper. And this time she doesn't have to look far for a good story. Next door, a Broadway show is in rehearsal at the estate of Toodles Tuttle, the long-deceased but ever-legendary composer. Reigning...