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Antique print dealer Maggie Summer arrives at the Rensselaer County Antiques Fair, looking forward to renewing friendships and spending Memorial Day weekend selling prints in the country. Instead, the dealer in the next booth is found murdered Friday night, and her friend Gussie's young nephew Ben, who has Down Syndrome, is accused. Maggie can't believe he's guilty -- she must find out who is ... before another dealer dies ....
Shadows at the Fair, the Agatha-finalist first in the Shadows Antique Print Mystery series, introduces Maggie Summer, antique print dealer and community college professor. In this exciting and praised series beginning, Maggie arrives to set up her booth at a Memorial Day show in New York State to find the dealers a-buzz with stories ... a number of their fellow dealers have died recently, some under questionable circumstances.
But the show must go on, and Maggie sets up her booth, arranging her antique prints and chatting with her friend Gussie, who exhibits dol | |  | | Shadows at the Spring Show: An Antique print Mystery
Maggie Summer has agreed to run an antiques show benfitting a local adoption agency on the grounds of the college where she teaches. But threatening letters and a missing young man, a member of the adoption community make it very clear: someone doesn't want this show to go on!
Planning the antiques show seemed a great way for Maggie Summer to find out more about adoption (something Maggie is seriously considering for herself) and help out a deserving organization. She's called in her antique-dealer friends, including new love Will Brewer, who's agreed to help her get the show set up, and dear friend Gussie, for whom traveling can be difficult, and many of her friends from Somerset Counmty Community College. Everything is going like clockwork. That is, until the agency, and then Maggie herself, begin receiving anonymous letters and calls threatening to sabotage th | |  | | Shadows of a Down East Summer: An Antique Print Mystery
In the summer of 1890, two young women posed for artist Winslow Homer on the coast of Maine. What happened that summer, the secrets the women kept and the lies they told, changed their families forever.
Now, more than a hundred years later, one of their descendants has been murder, leaving antique print dealer Maggie Summer the family papers that may finally reveal the truth. Maggie's vision of a relaxing vacation in Maine, antiquing with beau WillBrewer and visiting his Aunt Nettie, turns into a murder investigation, as Maggie must discover which of the family myths are based on reality, and which on lies,before someone she cares about -- or even she herself -- becomes the next victim,
| |  | | Shadows on a Cape Cod Wedding: A Shadows Antique Print Mystery
A wedding! But whose body is on the beach? When Maggie Summer's around, nothing's simple. And this time, tempers fly. Along with bullets. And then the winds start picking up ...
Antique print dealer Maggie Summer's best friend, Gussie, is getting married, so of course Maggie is happy to help her get ready. But she doesn't count on finding a body on the beach. Or being asked to interpret using ASL with the dead man's deaf cousin. But when Maggie gets too involved with the murder investigation ... is it because she's needed, or is she putting off a discussion she's been avoiding with her own beau? Before the answer is clear, there's another murder, and both storm winds and bullets are flying ... and this time even Maggie m | |  | | Shadows on the Coast of Maine: An Antique Print Mystery
Antique print dealer Maggie Summer's old college roommate and her husband have invited her to come to Maine to see their "new" home, built in 1774. A Maine vacation + antiquing sounds great. But when Maggie arrives, she finds her friends acting strangely, a series of bizarre accidents in the home, and perhaps even a ghost. The Maine fog definitely is concealing a mystery ...
August is the perfect time for antiquing in Maine. And, it turns out, for murder.
Amy and Drew Douglas have just bught a creaky but gorgeous Maine home built in 1774. The house, sitting high on a hill overlooking a river, is great, but the neighbors, who think the property should never have been put up for sale, are a problem. Until now, the house has always belonged to one formidable Maine family. Amy and Drew are New Yorkers, from away. They don't belong.
Hostile neighbors are just the start of the problems. Who is behind a series of strange fires and bizarre accidents. Wh | |  | | Shadows on the Ivy: An Antique Print Mystery
Antique print dealer and community college professor Maggie Summer has been thinking about adoption .. is it for her? So when she has the opportunity to work with a dormitory just for single parents on her campus, she jumps at the idea of looking at life as a single parent. But when one of the young parents is poisoned, Maggie finds herself questioning her co-workers on cmapus .. and her own emotions.
Maggie Summer' is excited about her new assignment as faculty advisor to the students in a new dormitory for single parents and their children that the wealthy Whitcomb family have donated to Somerset County Community College. She finds it more exciting than she anticipates when one of the students in the house is poisoned at a reception given by the Whitcombs, who are also some of Maggie's best print customers.
Between preparing lectures on American Civilization (using prints from her collection to illustrate cultural points) and preparing for an antique sh |
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