Synopses & Reviews
"Sharon Fiffer is a great writer of guilty pleasures. I've read every one of her mysteries. My rally cry: GIVE ME MORE STUFF!"—Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
THE WORLD’S LARGEST GARAGE SALE...MURDER INCLUDED
Antiques picker Jane Wheel is going home, back to Kankakee, Illinois. In this little town that time forgot, a farmer friend of Jane’s parents has dug up some mysterious old bones and relics. Jane just has to take a look, and she’s bringing her husband and son along. The whole family plans to camp out in a cornfield and have a rip-roaring good time. And the added bonus? Kankakee is about to host the biggest town garage sale, ever. Every block will be filled with the great stuff that is one man’s junk, but another man’s treasure—McCoy, Bakelite, vintage clothes, Depression glass, Griswold frying pans. What could possibly go wrong? A murder on the old man’s farm, just for starters...and development plans for Kankakee that spell trouble. That’s Trouble, with a capital T.
“Quirky characters, intriguing family relationships, antique lore, and the history of Kankakee are all entwined in this entertaining mystery, the fourth in a series.”
—Booklist
“I can’t get enough of Sharon Fiffer’s stuff! Waiting for her latest—Buried Stuff—reminded me of my childhood longing for the next Nancy Drew. I admit it. I’m addicted!”
—Mary Randolph Carter, author of American Junk
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Review
"We get in abundance...what we came in for: a taste of a quickly vanishing small-town American past." --
Chicago Tribune"Quirky characters, intriguing family relationships, antique lore, and the history of Kankakee are all entwined in this entertaining mystery." --Booklist
"Charming." --Publishers Weekly
"Fiffer's plotting is on the upswing." --Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis
"Sharon Fiffer is a great writer of guilty pleasures. I've read every one of her mysteries. My rally cry: GIVE ME MORE STUFF!"--Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
THE WORLD'S LARGEST GARAGE SALE...MURDER INCLUDED
Antiques picker Jane Wheel is going home, back to Kankakee, Illinois. In this little town that time forgot, a farmer friend of Jane's parents has dug up some mysterious old bones and relics. Jane just has to take a look, and she's bringing her husband and son along. The whole family plans to camp out in a cornfield and have a rip-roaring good time. And the added bonus? Kankakee is about to host the biggest town garage sale, ever. Every block will be filled with the great stuff that is one man's junk, but another man's treasure--McCoy, Bakelite, vintage clothes, Depression glass, Griswold frying pans. What could possibly go wrong? A murder on the old man's farm, just for starters...and development plans for Kankakee that spell trouble. That's Trouble, with a capital T.
"Quirky characters, intriguing family relationships, antique lore, and the history of Kankakee are all entwined in this entertaining mystery, the fourth in a series."
--Booklist
"I can't get enough of Sharon Fiffer's stuff! Waiting for her latest--Buried Stuff--reminded me of my childhood longing for the next Nancy Drew. I admit it. I'm addicted!"
--Mary Randolph Carter, author of American Junk
Synopsis
THE WORLD'S LARGEST GARAGE SALE...
MURDER INCLUDEDAntiques picker Jane Wheel is going home, back to Kankakee, Illinois. In this little town that time forgot, a farmer friend of Jane's parents has dug up some mysterious old bones and relics. Jane just has to take a look, and she's bringing her husband and son along. The whole family plans to camp out in a cornfield and have a rip-roaring good time. And the added bonus? Kankakee is about to host the biggest town garage sale, ever. Every block will be filled with the great stuff that is one man's junk, but another man's treasure--McCoy, Bakelite, vintage clothes, Depression glass, Griswold frying pans. What could possibly go wrong? A murder on the old man's farm, just for starters...and development plans for Kankakee that spell trouble. That's Trouble, with a capital T.
About the Author
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
Killer Stuff,
Dead Guys Stuff, and
The Wrong Stuff, the previous Jane Wheel mysteries, and
Imagining America. She lives near Chicago.