Jane Wheel #3
Minotaur Books
September 2004
On Sale: September 13, 2004
Featuring: Jane Wheel
304 pages ISBN: 0312989504 EAN: 9780312989507 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
Jane Wheel has a lot of stuff. Vintage flowerpots,
postcards, Bakelite buttons, pencil sharpeners, mismatched
china, linens, even old report cards from children she
never knew peek out from the deepest corners of her home,
threatening to envelop her entire life. Of course, she's
not just a pack rat (or so she tells herself), it's her
job: Jane is an antique picker, cruising garage sales and
rummage tables looking for items she can turn around and
sell to dealers or collectors, picking up a tidy profit.
Trouble is, she does a lot of buying and so far only a
little selling.
When a school permission slip lost
among the towering boxes in Jane's kitchen causes her son,
Nick, to miss a field trip, Jane vows to get rid of it
all, organizing her house and, in the process, she hopes,
her life. Meanwhile, she's entertaining two offers of
employment---as an associate with her friend Tim Lowry's
antiques dealership and as a consultant in a private
investigations firm with former police detective Bruce Oh.
Unable to decide, Jane figures she'll take a crack at
splitting her time between the two
pursuits.
Immediately, and with fragile emotions
swirling from her great house-cleaning project, Jane finds
herself smack in the middle of a case that will draw on
both her new jobs. An antiques dealer has been accused of
murder, perhaps as part of covering up an extensive
furniture-counterfeiting operation. Jane can hardly wait
to investigate---that is, until she learns the identity of
the accused: Claire Oh, wife of her new partner Bruce.
Rich in the details of junk-sale ephemera that have
intrigued fans of previous Jane Wheel adventures, The
Wrong Stuff is another fascinating, meticulously
crafted mystery.
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