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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...
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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...
5) The assassin
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Description
Thirty-something antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is arrested on suspicion of murdering his older, far wealthier lover Adalgisa. But as the increasingly Kafkaesque police investigation proceeds, it becomes less and less important whether Martelli actually committed the crime as his entire lifestyle is effectively put on trial.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
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334 p. ; 22 cm.
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When Lovejoy is wrongfully imprisoned--again--he's offered a way out with a catch. In exchange for his freedom, he agrees to a marriage of convenience to divorced millionairess, Laura Moon, as a way to help her hunt down her former husband. Sensing murderous vengeance in the air, Lovejoy intends to abscond when he can, but instead goes along with it at the insistence of his apprentice, Lydia and his teenage son, Mortimer. Lovejoy is evasive, but...
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Storm Syrrell adventures volume 2
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2010
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316 p. ; 22 cm.
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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.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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304 pages ; 22 cm.
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"On a crisp October Monday afternoon, Josie returns to her business, Prescott's Antiques & Auctions, after a lunch hour walk taking in New Hampshire's autumn foliage to find an elegant older woman waiting to see her. Veronica Sutton introduces herself as an old friend of Josie's father, who had died twenty years earlier. Veronica seems fidgety, and after only a few minutes, hands Josie a brown paper-wrapped package, about the size of a shoebox, and...
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Boxcar children volume 155
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When a local antique shop owner loses his memory after an accident, the Alden siblings help piece together the man's past to uncover who is holding a grudge against him.
10) Lethal treasure
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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296 pages ; 22 cm
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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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Acorn TV, RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (5 hrs., 24 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Antique dealer Jean White has embraced her new life and new friends in France. As she begins setting up shop in scenic Sainte Victoire, she continues to be drawn into mysteries, from minor offenses to murder investigations, with Dom by her side.
13) Lucky stuff
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Jane Wheel mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
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viii, 306 p. ; 22 cm.
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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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Appears on list
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When the mysterious letter arrives by courier, Valerie Cooper doesn't know what to make of it. She's become the beneficiary of her late husband's estranged uncle's will - a man she never knew - and inherited a majority partnership in the family's company, New Orleans Fine Antiques. When a wealthy local businesswoman is found dead with a jewelled dagger sticking out of her chest at a masquerade, Valerie is pushed into investigating Collette's business...
15) Scary stuff
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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.
16) Maitland
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Evan Maitland mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2005
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247 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In payment for a gambling debt, Little Nell and her grandfather are evicted from their curiosity shop by the evil Daniel Quilp and wander about the country looking for a new home.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
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358 pages ; 24 cm.
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Hired as a liaison for the mayor's new Pacific Rim Friendship Program, antiques dealer and sometime private eye Jim Brodie investigates a sniper attack on his artist friend's family, a case that pits him against the CIA, FBI and Homeland Security.
19) My best friend
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Unlikeable antiques dealer François always gets what he wants, but there's one thing he's never had: a friend. Challenged to a bet by his business partner, François must find someone who will pose as his best pal in just 10 days. Enlisting the assistance of charming taxi driver Bruno, François goes to outrageous lengths to be a likeable guy.
20) Antiques bizarre
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While dealing with morning sickness, her bipolar mother, and the citywide antiques bazaar, Brandy Borne must also deal with murder when a ninety-year-old Russian widow donates a priceless antique that is not what it seems.
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