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Abigail Timberlake Washburn would rather be anywhere else on a muggy Charleston summer evening -- even putting in extra hours at her antiques shop -- than at a séance. But her best friend, "Calamity Jane," thinks a spirit -- or "Apparition American," as ectoplasmically-correct Abby puts it -- lurks in the eighteenth-century Georgian mansion, complete with priceless, seventeenth-century Portuguese kitchen tiles, that C.J. just bought as a fixer-upper....

Business isn't booming for antiques dealer Abigail Timberlake Washburn. A local rug store is luring away her customers with its rock-bottom prices. Eager to check out the competition, Abby is delighted to find a priceless Persian amid the cut-rate carpets--and shocked when Gwendolyn Spears, the store's beleaguered owner, begs her to take it home! Abby feels more than a little guilty about getting such a great deal . . . especially when Gwendolyn is...

For Whom The Bell Pulls Tolls As owner of the Den of Antiquity, recently divorced (but never bitter!) Abigail Timberlake is accustomed to delving into the past, searching for lost treasures, and navigating the cutthroat world of rival dealers at flea markets and auctions. Still, she never thought she'd be putting her expertise in mayhem and detection to other use -- until crotchety "junque" dealer, Abby's aunt Eulonia Wiggins, was found murdered!...

When Abigail Timberlake buys a bad copy of Van Gogh's "The Starry Night", little does she know she bought herself a fortune and a lot of trouble.

All antiques dealer Abigail Timberlake Washburn wanted was to find a perfect gift for her darling (if not altogether together) mama Mozella's birthday. She never expected her online purchase of an exquisite, seventeenth-century rosewood linen chest to place her in federal custody, accused of trafficking in illegal ivory! Then insult is heaped on her injury when she's forced to turn to her lawyer-snake ex, Buford, to spring her -- since ex-cop/current...

Winning the bid at an auction for the contents of an old locker that has been sealed for years, Abigail Timberlake Washburn is delighted to discover a collection of beautiful old walking sticks--as well as a gym bag containing a human skull--and joins forces with her assistant and future sister-in-law C.J. to uncover a killer.

When Abby's Aunt passes from a mysterious drowning in champagne, leaving her sole heir, Abby finds a valubable penny taped into the inside of Aunt Lula Mae's coffin. Abby needs to find her penny auntie's killer p.d.q...or shel'll be up to her ashes in serious trouble.

Handsome Tradd Maxwell Burton needs Abby (Abigail Timberlake), antique dealer and owner of Den of Antiquity, to determine the most priceless item in the Latham Mansion and then split the proceeds with her. Trying to carry out Tradd's request, Abby finds that she could cut the household tension with a knife. But someone has beaten he to it by stabbing a maid to death with an ancient kris.

Den of Antiquity proprietress, Abigail Timberlake'sinvites Mrs. Amelia shadbark to broker a pricey collection of Lalique glass sculpture. When Mrs. Shadbark meets a foul, untimely end, Abby is pegged by the local law as suspect Numero Uno.