Gilt By Association (A Den of Antiquity Mystery)
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ISBN: 0380782375 / Publisher: Avon Books, December 1996
Purchasing a gilt-edged eighteenth-century French armoire, antiques dealer Abigail Timberlake is astonished when she discovers a dead body in the armoire and must solve the mystery to avoid losing peak-season business
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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.
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