antique dealers

A collection of short stories that explore the human condition.

Boston antiques dealer Abby Randolph, betrayed by an old friend, dumped by her lover, and grieving the death of her mom, makes the surprising discovery that an old chamber pot she inherited from her mother once belonged to poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and is worth nearly one hundred thousand dollars--a fact that brings a lot of people from her past calling.

When an antiques dealer in Cape Town if found dead, former police officer Zet van Heerden uses his connection to the world of soldiers and mercenary fighters to learn more about the victim, and in the course of his investigation, Zet learns the man had invented a new life for himself to hide deadly secrets.

Corin Roscoe, an antiques dealer, is given a mysterious chair by a woman who claims it was made by Jesus Christ. Corin is skeptical at first, but after a boy suffering from asthma sits in it and seems to be miraculously cured Corin has second thoughts. Then more people learn about the chair, and Corin learns that it has a history he didn't know about, and that powerful forces are at work to get their hands on it and its power.

Resourceful Lavinia Lake's life becomes increasingly complicated after she becomes involved with Mr. Tobias March, an investigator who claims he has traced a dangerous villain to her store in Rome.

Hassan, who works in an antique shop in Cairo, embarks upon an adventure to find valuable treasure possibly related to Neferure, the daughter of Egyptian Queen Hatsepsut.

Rei Shimura, a twenty-eight-year-old, California-born antiques dealer living in Japan, is pleasantly surprised when she is asked to transport several valuable nineteenth-century kimonos to an American museum and lecture on them, but the trip goes awry when a kimono goes missing and Rei's passport turns up on a dead body in a dumpster.

This is the story of Little Nell Trent and her grandfather as they wandered through English towns and countryside and of Daniel Quilp's compulsion to destroy the happiness of Nell and her friends.

Anneke Haagen and Karl Genesko, a police lieutenant, search for a killer named "The Jap". Anneke's efforts take her to the studio of a local painter, to a giant antiques and crafts fair, and into the lives and secrets of a number of her friends and acquaintances.