Baubles and Bangles – A store on Fifth Avenue, managed by Ms. Kates, where Simon Lastrobe as “Nicholas Claus” purchased the four stylized birds necklace found on Brent Holloway in Holiday in Death. The necklace was designed by her husband, who was their jeweler; it was one of a kind, commissioned, and Ms. Kates remembered Lastrobe coming into the store three times.
The shop was all pink and gold, like the inside of a seashell. Music, the quiet, deep sort that made Eve think of churches, hummed in the rarified air. The flowers were fresh, the shell-pink carpet thick, the guard at the door discreetly armed.
The security cameras were little pinhole lenses tucked in the carved molding that framed a coffered ceiling. A fluid spiral of stairs arched to the right. Or if madam was too weary from carting around pounds of gold and stones, she was welcome to use the shining brass elevator.[1]
References:
- ↑ Holiday in Death, Chapter 15