DUNNETT, Dorothy - Dolly and the Bird of Paradise - (1st Edition Hardcover in Wrapper)

Book very good - Wrapper good.  >>>   Another treasure from Dorothy Dunnett.  Rita Geddes, leading makeup artist, is extraordinary from the top of her spiky blue-and-orange hair to the tips of her clever fingers.  Lovely white yacht Dolly will never be the same after taking feisty Rita aboard.  -  We travel from London to Madeira to the Caribbean, trailing the badly shattered artist-yachtsman Johnson Johnson, an exotic photographer, an animal trainer plus parrots and gerbils, and the glamorous Curtis family, rich from making up the faces of Hollywood stars and movie casts.  A string of collisions between these characters ends suspensefully during a West Indies hurricane.  -  The deep, fascinating, and colorful Rita is unveiled gradually along with murders, attempted murders, and an international drug ring.   (Joy on Goodreads)