Dead Guy's Stuff - Softcover

Sharon Fiffer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312986807 ISBN 13: 9780312986803

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2002

Synopsis

While cataloguing her loot from a Chicago-area estate sale, antiques lover Jane Wheeler discovers among the contents of a 1950s-era tavern that she had bought a human finger in a tiny jar and embarks on an investigation into a decades-old mystery. By the author of Killer Stuff. Reprint.

About this title

About the Authors

Sharon Fiffer collects buttons, Bakelite, pottery, vintage potholders, keys, locks, and more dead guy's stuff. The author of two other Jane Wheel mysteries, Killer Stuff and The Wrong Stuff, Sharon Fiffer has also co-edited the anthologies Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own, Body, and Family: American Writers Remember Their Own and written Imagining America.

Sharon Fiffer collects buttons, Bakelite, pottery, vintage potholders, keys, locks, and more dead guy's stuff. The author of two other Jane Wheel mysteries, Killer Stuff and The Wrong Stuff, Sharon Fiffer has also co-edited the anthologies Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own, Body, and Family: American Writers Remember Their Own and written Imagining America.

From the Back Cover

Vintage Treasures...and Deadly Secrets
From Bakelite jewelry to jadeite dishes, antiques "picker" Jane Wheel has a knack for hunting down vintage collectibles. And when a Chicago estate sale yields a room full of dusty tavern memorabilia, she hits pay dirt once again. Most of this "dead guy's stuff" is just perfect for decorating her parents' newly renovated bar & grill in Kankakee, Illinois. Most of this stuff...except for the finger pickled in a jar of formaldehyde.

Uncertain what to do about the mysterious "body part," Jane asks former homicide detective Bruce Oh to see if the detached digit is connected to a crime. Meanwhile she is carting her tavern treasures down to Kankakee unaware that her hometown's darkest secrets are buried in her boxes...or that her talent for finding things will lead to a corpse, a kidnapping, and a chilling threat to those she loves most....

From the Inside Flap

You've Got Mail...
In the moment in which the backroom went dark, they heard a thud, breaking of glass, and another thud in the front of the EZ Way Inn. Nellie, then Jane, then Don ran into the barroom and saw the front window broken, jagged glass now framing the neon DON AND NELLIE'S that hung independently in the window. A brick lay on the floor, and Jane picked it up, untaping the paper wrapped around it: "I know what you did. I know where the bodies are buried. Same money. Same time. Same place."


Praise for Sharon Fiffer's Killer Stuff
"[Jane's] addiction to Bakelite and other unusual relics of the American past will endear her to many cozy readers, especially those who are fans of TV's Antiques Road Show." -Publishers Weekly

"Sharon Fiffer's first mystery is a must-have...This is a keeper." -Chicago Tribune

"Readers whose idea of heaven is picking through boxes of junk at a dusty flea market are certain to love this entertaining first novel starring Chicagoan Jane Wheel." -Booklist

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312986807
• ISBN 13: 9780312986803
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 336