The Copenhagen Affair [antikvár]

PROLOGUE HERE IS A ROW of buildings in New York City, a few blocks from the United Nations Building. It consists, starting from the south end, of a three-storied whitestone which appears fairly new in contrast with the series of brownstones which make up most of the row, and at the north end a busy public garage. The brownstones are occupied by a few lower-income families living above the decrepit shops and business premises at street level. Del Fiona's tailor shop occupies the street level space in a brownstone near the middle of the block. The first and second floors of the white-stone are taken up by an exclusive "key club" restaurant named The Mask Club, which features fine food served by waitresses wearing masks (and very little else) to patrons who don masks covering nostrils to brow as • they enter.