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Antique picker Jane Wheel has always loved old stuff, from vintage salt and pepper shakers to other families’ old photos and orphaned Bakelite buttons, and she can’t really explain why. But she makes a living out of it, searching high and low at estate sales and antique shops and reselling her finds to other collectors. At least, it’s half a living---she makes the other half as an associate to a private detective, because she’s just as talented at digging up secrets as antiques.

While visiting her brother for the first time in years, Jane’s fascinated by a story of mistaken identity: On three occasions, someone has accused him of swindling them on eBay, only to realize he’s not the right guy. Even though he doesn’t see the point, she wants to look into it. Then back at home one of her parents’ friends is attacked, leading Jane to vow to get to the bottom of things.

Out of nowhere, Jane suddenly has two cases, both edging a little too close to her loved ones for comfort, because one thing’s for sure---whenever family gets wrapped up in your personal business, it’s bound to be some scary stuff.

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Sharon Fiffer collects buttons, Bakelite, pottery, vintage potholders, keys, locks, and other killer stuff. She is coeditor of the anthologies Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own; Body; and Family: American Writers Remember Their Own, and the author of five previous Jane Wheel mysteries as well as the nonfiction book, Imagining America. She lives near Chicago.

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In Fiffer's spooky sixth Jane Wheel mystery to feature the Chicago collectibles picker and accidental private eye (after 2006's Hollywood Stuff), Jane is worried that her brother, Michael, might be involved with Honest Joe, a shady Internet dealer, after finding fake baseball cards in her brother's house while visiting him in California. More than once, customers swindled by Honest Joe on eBay have accosted Michael, who eerily looks like Honest Joe. After conferring with her detective partner, Bruce Oh, Jane gets on a trail that leads to Herscher, Ill., the home of Jim Speller, who might be the Internet swindler. Jim might also be living with Jane's mother's eccentric cousin, Ada. Jane, Bruce and associates wind up trying to trap some malevolent ghost thieves on Scary Night, Ada's Halloween haunted house festival, at the chilling climax. Fiffer supplies just enough background to ease new readers into the series. (Oct.)
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  • PublisherMinotaur Books
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0312387784
  • ISBN 13 9780312387785
  • BindingHardcover
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