Lady Eve Marlowe and the pearls…

Lady Eve's diary and her string of pearls from Cairo

 

Lady Eve Marlowe recounted her wild days in Weimar Berlin for us during the month of May.  She recorded her adventures in her diary…

 

But what about the pearls on the book cover?  What is the significance?

Here is a short excerpt from Cleopatra’s Perfume the night she wore the pearls when she danced nude in the Cleopatra Club in Cairo covered in gold paint:  I shimmied, wiggling my shoulders as Josette switched from jazz to Debussy, adding a classical aura to my ancient dance.  I stopped and stood before the stranger, then turned my back to him, my nude buttocks so close to the bulge in his trousers, we nearly touched.  A pleasant sensation went through me when he reached out to caress my gold skin.  I wiggled away.  But not far.      

“Will you be my Caesar tonight?” I said to the stranger…

Find out what happened next in Cleopatra’s Perfume  on page 214…