Carriage Trade

Stephen Birmingham, Stephen Briningham. Bantam Books, $5.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-553-56878-3

The sudden death of a retailing mogul leads to New York high society intrigue in this entertaining novel from the author of Our Crowd. (Jan.)

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