Helen Gurley Brown

Twenty years after the publication of her landmark, life-changing, international best seller, Sex and the Single Girl, Helen Gurley Brown now brings you the ultimate guide to making the most of yourself and your life -- even if you think you are starting out late or with little going for you!

"Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn. Against orders and her own partner's wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night. As the cases entwine they pull her closer to her own demons and the reason she won't give up her job no matter what the department throws at her."--

"Helen Gurley Brown believes that letters are the most effective - and delightful - way to communicate. Need a favor? Write a letter. Want to rave? Write a letter. Are thank-yous in order? Write a letter. Helen even occasionally uses a letter to ... well ... complain." "A collection of Helen's letters over the last decade or so has been gathered here. Dip into them and drop into her world - peopled with everyone from celebrities to maitres d'hotel, bestest childhood friends to movie producers and critics. And of course there's a sampling of the letters she used to exhort and cajole colleagues and generally keep Cosmopolitan running smoothly over her many years as editor."--Jacket.