Antiques Maul: A Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery
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A Trash ‘n’ Treasures Tip
Shopping can be daunting at a flea market, where treasures are often hidden among the trash—like the rare photo of Edgar Allan Poe some lucky buyer purchased for a pittance and then sold for thirty-five thousand. Bet that dealer’s kicking himself. So am I—I passed it up!
BARBARA ALLAN
is the joint pseudonym for husband-and-wife mystery writers Max Allan and Barbara Collins.
BARBARA COLLINS is one of the most respected short story writers in the mystery field, with appearances in over a dozen top anthologies, including Murder Most Delicious, Women on the Edge, and the best-selling Cat Crimes series. She was the coeditor (and a contributor) to the best-selling anthology Lethal Ladies, and her stories were selected for inclusion in the first three volumes of The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories.
Two acclaimed hardcover collections of her work have been published—Too Many Tomcats and (with her husband) Murder—His and Hers. Their first novel together, the baby boomer thriller Regeneration, was a best seller; their second collaborative novel, Bombshell—in which Marilyn Monroe saves the world from World War III—was published in hardcover to excellent reviews.
Barbara has been the production manager and/or line producer on “Mommy,” “Mommy’s Day,” and “Real Time: Siege at Lucas Street Market,” and other independent film projects emanating from the production company she and her husband jointly run.
MAX ALLAN COLLINS, a five-time Mystery Writers of America “Edgar” nominee in both fiction and nonfiction categories, has been hailed as “the Renaissance man of mystery fiction.” He has earned an unprecedented fourteen Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations for his historical thrillers, winning twice for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective (1983) and Stolen Away (1991), and was recently presented with the Eye, the Private Eye Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. His other credits include film criticism, short fiction, songwriting, trading-card sets, and movie/TV tie-in novels, including Air Force One, In the Line of Fire, and the New York Times best-selling Saving Private Ryan. His graphic novel Road to Perdition is the basis of the Academy Award–winning Dream-Works feature film starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, and Jude Law, directed by Sam Mendes. In addition to his nominations for both the Eisner and Harvey awards (the “Oscars” of the comics world), Collins has many comics credits, including the “Dick Tracy” syndicated strip (1977–1993); his own “Ms. Tree”; “Batman”; and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” based on the hit TV series, for which he has also written five video games and an internationally best-selling series of novels.
One of the most acclaimed and award-winning independent filmmakers in the Midwest, he wrote and directed “Mommy,” premiering on Lifetime in 1996, as well as a 1997 sequel, “Mommy’s Day.” The screenwriter of “The Expert,” a 1995 HBO World Premiere, he wrote and directed the innovative made-for-DVD feature “Real Time: Siege at Lucas Street Market”(2000). A DVD boxed set of his films appeared recently on the Neo Noir label and includes “Shades of Noir” (2004), an anthology of his short films, including his award-winning documentary, “Mike Hammer’s Mickey Spillane.” He recently completed “Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life,” the film version of his Edgar-nominated play.
“BARBARA ALLAN” live(s) in Muscatine, Iowa, their hometown; son Nathan graduated with honors in Japanese and computer science at the University of Iowa in nearby Iowa City and recently completed postgraduate study in Japan.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Chapter One: Them’s the Rakes
Chapter Two: A Piece of the Auction
Chapter Three: A Hunting We Will Hoe
Chapter Four: Close But No Cigar Store Indian
Chapter Five: Teacher’s Pet
Chapter Six: Let Sleeping Dogs Die
Chapter Seven: Assault and Pepper Shakers
Chapter Eight: Throw in the Trowel
Chapter Nine: Hike-and-Seek
Chapter Ten: Fire Urn and Cauldron Bubble
Chapter Eleven: In the Kill of the Night
Chapter Twelve: Down by the Old Mill Scream
Chapter Thirteen: Eat, Sink, and Be Merry