Praised by thei New York Times Book Review ias fascinating, suspenseful, careful, musically detailed, and insightful, this is a long-overdue biography of recording artist and musical legend Peggy Lee. pMiss Peggy Lee cast a spell when she sang. She epitomized cool, but her trademark song, Fever--covered by Beyonc and Madonna--is the essence of sizzling sexual heat. Her jazz sense dazzled Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong. She was the voice of swing, the voice of blues, and she provided four of the voices for Walt Disney's iLady and the Trampi, whose score she co-wrote. But who was the woman behind the Mona Lisa smile pWith elegant writing and impeccable research, including interviews with hundreds who knew Lee, acclaimed music journalist James Gavin offers the most revealing look yet at an artist of infinite contradictions and layers. Lee was a North Dakota prairie girl who became a temptress of enduring mystique. She was a singer-songwriter before the term existed. Lee