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Antique picker Jane Wheel has always loved old stuff, from vintage salt and pepper shakers to other families’ old photos and orphaned Bakelite buttons, and she can’t really explain why. But she makes a living out of it, searching high and low at estate sales and antique shops and reselling her finds to other collectors. At least, it’s half a living—-she makes the other half as an associate to a private detective, because she’s just as talented at digging up secrets as antiques.

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Antique picker Jane Wheel has always loved old stuff, from vintage salt and pepper shakers to other families’ old photos and orphaned Bakelite buttons, and she can’t really explain why. But she makes a living out of it, searching high and low at estate sales and antique shops and reselling her finds to other collectors. At least, it’s half a living—-she makes the other half as an associate to a private detective, because she’s just as talented at digging up secrets as antiques.

While visiting her brother for the first time in years, Jane’s fascinated by a story of mistaken identity: On three occasions, someone has accused him of swindling them on eBay, only to realize he’s not the right guy. Even though he doesn’t see the point, she wants to look into it. Then back at home one of her parents’ friends is attacked, leading Jane to vow to get to the bottom of things.

Out of nowhere, Jane suddenly has two cases, both edging a little too close to her loved ones for comfort, because one thing’s for sure—-whenever family gets wrapped up in your personal business, it’s bound to be some scary stuff.

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Praise for Sharon Fiffer and All of Her Stuff

“Amusing takes on Hollywood personalities and excesses.”

—-Kirkus Reviews on Hollywood Stuff

“Quirky characters, intriguing family relationships, antique lore, and the history of Kankakee are all entwined in this entertaining mystery.”

—-Booklist on Buried Stuff 

“Not even John O’Hara could have objectified that social divide faster or neater.”

—-Chicago Tribune on The Wrong Stuff

“Haunters of flea markets and yard sales are in for a collectible treat.”

—-Publishers Weekly on The Wrong Stuff

“Fiffer has created an attractive and entertaining detective.”

—-The Dallas Morning News on Killer Stuff

“Sharon Fiffer’s first mystery is a must-have. . . . This one’s a keeper.”

—-Chicago Tribune on Killer Stuff

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In Fiffer's spooky sixth Jane Wheel mystery to feature the Chicago collectibles picker and “accidental private eye” (after 2006's Hollywood Stuff), Jane is worried that her brother, Michael, might be involved with Honest Joe, a shady Internet dealer, after finding fake baseball cards in her brother's house while visiting him in California. More than once, customers swindled by Honest Joe on eBay have accosted Michael, who eerily looks like Honest Joe. After conferring with her detective partner, Bruce Oh, Jane gets on a trail that leads to Herscher, Ill., the home of Jim Speller, who might be the Internet swindler. Jim might also be living with Jane's mother's eccentric cousin, Ada. Jane, Bruce and associates wind up trying to trap some malevolent “ghost” thieves on “Scary Night,” Ada's Halloween haunted house festival, at the chilling climax. Fiffer supplies just enough background to ease new readers into the series. (Oct.)
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Jane Wheel, professional garage-sale picker and quasi-professional detective, finds her brother's doppelganger. Visiting her brother Michael in Los Angeles, Jane Wheel opens a drawer and discovers many valuable Hall of Famer rookie baseball cards. Alas, they're fakes bought on the Internet, though they may explain why perfect strangers are accosting Michael in the street until they get a closer look and say, "No, the eyes are different." On meeting one of Michael's harassers, Jane learns that her brother's doppelganger, Honest Joe, who has what looks a lot like Michael's photo on his website, is selling those fakes from Herscher, Ill., one town over from Kankakee, where Jane promised Detective Oh that she would sit for her p.i. license test so that she could become his partner (Hollywood Stuff, 2006, etc.). Home she goes to investigate. With a bit of help from her nearest and dearest-her best friend Tim, a wickedly witty gay garage-sale maven; her mom, irascible tavern-owner Nellie; and Detective Oh-Jane uncovers a long-kept family secret while focusing on the shenanigans going on in an allegedly haunted house. Somewhere en route to better plotting, Fiffer has drained Jane of her ebullience and humor, whose loss may account for her husband's defection. But Tim can still provoke a good chortle, and many readers will be charmed into picking up a knife and carving a leer into a pumpkin face.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312387785
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 9/29/2009
  • Series: Jane Wheel Series , #6
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Pages: 304
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet 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 five previous Jane Wheel mysteries as well as the nonfiction book, Imagining America. She lives near Chicago.

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  • Posted February 6, 2010

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    Jane Wheel is at it Again

    Fun to learn more about Jane's family although it will be interesting to see where things go in the next book. I really like all of the books in this series, can't understand why so many of them are out of print.

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  • Posted August 7, 2009

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    ARY STUFF is an enthralling amateur sleuth mystery

    Chicago collectible picker Jane Wheel is very concerned with her brother Michael whom she fears is working with dishonest eBay dealer Honest Joe. Her evidence is counterfeit baseball cards she found in her sibling's house when she visited him in California.

    She also knows that customers taken to the cleaners by dishonest Honest Joe have been ready to beat the snot out of Michael. Worse Michael looks like Honest Joe's twin that is on his internet store site. Jane asks her detective partner, Bruce Oh to investigate. His inquiry leads her to Jim Speller of Herscher, Illinois; however Jim apparently is living with Jane's second cousin Ada, who is hosting a "Scary Night" haunted house festival with "real" thieving ghosts.

    The latest Jane Wheel mystery (see HOLLYWOOD STUFF) is an exciting fast-paced investigative tale with several fabulous twists with readers anticipating the next spin. Jane is at her best as she tries to identify who Honest Joe the internet thief is and what the connection to her brother is; she rules out separated at birth theory. Fans will relish her efforts to protect Michael from irate surfers by uncovering the truth. SCARY STUFF is an enthralling amateur sleuth mystery.

    Harriet Klausner

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  • Posted December 27, 2009

    Scary Stuff-but not too

    Another fun read in the Jane Wheel Series. Especially for those of us who can relate to Sharon Fiffer's story locations in Illinois and the Chicago area.

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