The Crown Author:Ray Harris Mixing diamonds, sex, drug smuggling and money laundering becomes a gehakteh tsuris (trouble, big time) for jewelry mogul Walter Keppelman. And then, when Tanya danced for him, the Angel of Death danced with her. Set amid changing business and moral imperatives, from the days of the Great Depression to the Viet Nam era, THE CROWN paints a raunch... more »y behind-the-scenes picture of the diamond and jewelry business that customers never get to see--and one that is never a girl's best friend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ray Harris spent twenty years behind the scenes and up front in the jewelry business before taking his master's degree in literature and turning to full-time wordsmithing. He writes from a second floor aerie that looks towards the mountains of rural western Massachusetts, sharing his eagle perch with his wife Chris, also a writer. They spend their spare time trying to educate an exuberant golden retriever in the ways of polite society.« less