Very Cold for May

Her corpse would be the hottest news in town.

May Laval was as brilliant as a ten-carat diamond—and just as cold. As the calculating ruler of a social set, she influenced generals, politicians, and big businessmen. Slowly and shrewdly, she learned the intimate details of everyone''s life and recorded the seamy facts in a diary so as not to forget a single sordid detail. One day, May Laval threatene...