Next Week Will Be Better (Cat Wilde Mystery) - Softcover

Ruryk, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0373263333 ISBN 13: 9780373263332

Publisher: Worldwide Library, 1999

Synopsis

Standing in for her friend Rena at a summer antiques flea market, Cat worries that she is not up to haggling with dealers but that becomes the least of her concerns when her stall neighbor is murdered. Reprint.

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From Kirkus Reviews

Furniture restorer Cat Wilde had thought she was done with flea marketsthought the part of her life that had to make room for 4 a.m. risings, lugging cartons of dubious knickknacks into rented spaces, and dealing with the public at its most pertinacious was over, and good riddance. But when her friend Rena Kundera's gallstones take her into the hospital and away from the reserved spots she'll have to forfeit at Finney's Farm and the Beacon Mall, Cat volunteers to take over Rena's stall for six weeks. In no time at all she's up to her elbows in underhanded dealing (why is Rena's friend Old Sam Samson pocketing thick wads of bills for 35-cent paperbacks?), murky provenances (are those her friend Dr. Lli Steinhauer's lovely things getting sold for a song by neighboring vendors?), love young and old (is duckling-turned-swan Tina Spiridakis, celebrating her own engagement, determined to get Cat fixed up with her father?), and, eventually, murder (why would somebody not only beat Old Sam to death but open every box in his pickup and smash everything inside to pieces?). Cat's third (What Ever Happened to Jennifer Steele?, 1996, etc.) is aimed once again at the antiques crowd that finds Jonathan Gash too taxingeven though this low-key offering needs as many flashbacks as Citizen Kane to tell its slender story. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Worldwide Library
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0373263333
• ISBN 13: 9780373263332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256