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2) Maitland
Author
Series
Evan Maitland mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 23 cm.
3) The portrait
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A collector unearths the find of a lifetime: an eighteenth-century portrait of a man uncannily like him.
While wandering through a Paris auction house, avid collector Pierre-François Chaumont is stunned to discover the eighteenth-century portrait of an unknown man who looks just like him.
Much to his delight, Chaumont's bid for the work is successful, but back at home his jaded wife and circle of friends are unable to see the resemblance.
Chaumont...
4) Get Maitland
Author
Series
Evan Maitland mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
255 p. ; 23 cm.
Author
Series
Jane Wheel mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 22 cm.
7) Antiques con
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Small-town sleuths Brandy and Vivian Borne--with their trusty shih tzu, Sushi--head for a Big Apple comics convention to sell a rare 1940s Superman drawing. When an intruder breaks into their hotel suite, their madcap Manhattan misadventure is only beginning. Soon the out-of-towners stumble onto a murder victim impaled by a pen-shaped award. Villains abound--from cartoonists to crime bosses--creating a jumble of clues. Brandy and Vivian will leave...
8) Lucky stuff
Author
Series
Jane Wheel mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
viii, 306 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Forced to sell her house and move her antique collection after her divorce is finalized, private investigator Jane Wheel relocates to her Illinois hometown, where she investigates a washed-up comedian's activities against a backdrop of a crewman's suspicious death.
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It's always been easier for Cara Hargraves to bury herself in the past than confront the present, which is why working with a gruff but brilliant antiques dealer is perfect. While clearing out an estate, she pries open an old tin that holds the relics of a lost relationship: among the treasures, a World War II-era diary and a photograph of a young woman in uniform. Eager to find the author of the hauntingly beautiful, unfinished diary, Cara digs into...
12) Antiques maul
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As Halloween approaches, Brandy and her meddling mother must unmask a killer when a body is found at the antiques mall, supposedly mauled to death by a good-natured pit bull, launching an investigation that results in the disappearance of her ten-year-old son.
14) Lethal treasure
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Joining the crowds at abandoned storage units being sold at auction a week before Valentine's Day, antiques dealer Josie Prescott is compelled to use her unique skills to solve the murder of a friend who is killed immediately after the auction.
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When her "charmingly eccentric" mother Vivian is accused of killing mousy-haired busybody Connie Grimes after they were both involved in a bit of a scuffle, Brandy Borne must find the truth, which immerses her in a scandal involving questionable antiques and dark family secrets.
16) Scary stuff
Author
Series
Jane Wheel mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
While visiting California, antique picker and associate detective Jane Wheel becomes embroiled in two cases involving her family, one of eBay-related mistaken identity involving her brother, and an attack on a friend of her parents.
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Series
Storm Syrrell adventures volume 2
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
316 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Storm Syrrell, an antiques dealer, investigates the trade in religious artifacts in Europe and is asked by a Russian oligarch to bid on a mysterious Black Madonna, an icon with healing powers, as the treasure hunter Storm had been travelling with suddenly disappears.
18) Silent auction
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Josie Prescott arrives at the renovated lighthouse in the little New Hampshire coastal town of Rocky Point to conduct an antiques appraisal and is horrified to discover the bludgeoned body of her neighbor Zoë's beloved nephew. The owners of the lighthouse are avid antiques collectors, and Josie soon begins to suspect that a scrimshaw tooth from their collection may be the key to solving the crime that has shaken the town, and broken her friend's...
19) Antiques ravin'
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"The votes are in! Eccentric seventy-something Vivian Borne has (somehow) been elected county sheriff, and she's lurched into action, namingdaughter Brandy a reluctantdeputy and recruiting their spunky shih tzu Sushi as a one-doggie K-9 unit. As the dauntless duo snoops into creepy crimes plaguing an ill-fated Edgar Allan Poe festival, an eerie series of mournful murders puts them on a rocky road to dispensing Poe-etic justice. Small-town Antiqua,...
20) Secrets
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When an old steamer chest from an anonymous source arrives at Cullen and Luna Bodman's restoration shop and café, it is fascinating in its own right. But inside, Cullen discovers a locked diary accompanied by a letter, asking for the diary to be restored to its rightful owner. Luna sees this as a puzzle to be solved, but everyone isn't thrilled by her quest. Her budding relationship with U.S. Marshal Christopher Gaines comes under strain as he tries...
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