By Marcia Muller
The booklet that introduced the hugely well known sequence! It's Sharon McCone's first case as employees investigator for All Souls criminal Cooperative. She is aware not anything approximately antiques, but she has an affection for Salem highway with its fascinating mixture of vintage and curio outlets. Now aged broker Joan Albritton has been stumbled on lifeless, stabbed with an vintage dagger. Her associates are stunned. routine vandalism has them fearful. And McCone's creation to Lieutenant Gregory Marcus doesn't aid issues. Ferreting out the proof will take Sharon from the chaotic jumble of the junk dealer's institution to a museum the place San Francisco's so much stylish socialites assemble.
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The pneumonia was a help, for there would tend to be some liquid in the lungs, as might well be the case if the man had died while floating in the rough sea. If a postmortem examination was made by someone who had formed the preconceived idea that the death was probably due to drown ing there was little likelihood that the difference between this liquid, in the lungs that had started to decompose, and sea water would be noticed. Indeed, a postmortem examination in Spain concluded that death was due to drowning and the bogus documents were accepted as authentic.
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