Petite, indomitable North Carolinian Abigail Timberlake rose gloriously up from the ashes of divorce--parlaying her savvy about exquisite old things into a thriving antiques enterprise: the Den of Antiquity. Now she's a force to be reckoned with in Charlotte's close-knit world of mavens, eccentrics and cuttthroat dealers. But a superb, gilt-edged 18th-century French armoire she purchased for a song at estate auction has just arrived along with something she didn't pay for: a dead body.Suddenly her shop is a crime scene--and closed to the public during the busiest shopping season of the year--so Abigail is determined to speed the lumbering police investigation along. But amateur sleuthing is leading the feisty antiques expert into a murderous mess of dysfunctional family secrets. And the next cadaver found stuffed into fine old furniture could wind up being Abigail's own.
Book Details
Format
mass_market
ISBN-10
0380782375
ISBN-13
9780380782376
Publication Date
Dec 1996
Item Weight
2.31 pounds
Length
6.73 inch
Width
4.17 inch
Height
0.63 inch
First Sentence
The invoice from the estate auction read as follows: one Louis XV armoire one Louis XV desk one small Louis XV table one carved and gilded mirror
