Double Dealer

McCafferty, Barbara Taylor & Beverly Taylor Herald

ISBN 10: 1575665077 / ISBN 13: 9781575665078

Published by Kensington Books, New York, NY, 2000

About this Item

A Bert and Nan Tatum mystery. Fourth mystery by twin sisters about twin sisters. Signed by Beverly Taylor Herald on title page. In protective mylar cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 000830

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Double Dealer
• Publisher: Kensington Books, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575665077
• ISBN 13: 9781575665078
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mysteries

About this title

Synopsis

The murder of an antiques dealer finds Bert and Nan haunting the dusty, unscrupulous world of curios and antique shops searching for a killer. Original.

Reviews

Twin authors McCafferty and Herald are up to form in another lively adventure featuring sisters Bert and Nan, namesakes of one pair of Bobbsey twins. When Bert's daughter Ellie confesses to shooting flea-market dealer Franklin Haggerty, her mother and aunt are convinced she's covering up for someone. But who? The girl seems to be enamored with Chris, another flea-market dealer, but she isn't so smitten that she would take such a foolish step, or would she? When the police, convinced they have their killer, make sure she stays in jail, Bert and Nan decide to do a little sleuthing on their own to prove Ellie's innocence. They discover that the deceased had no shortage of enemies; he apparently cheated just about everyone he could, misrepresenting his wares, under-bidding his fellow dealers and even blackmailing people unlucky enough to have left sensitive personal items in furniture he acquired. Puzzled by Chris's lack of scruples about leaving Ellie in jail, they learn that the young man feels robbed of his rightful inheritance. A chest sold to Haggerty may have contained a will entitling Chris to half his late foster parents' estate. Was Haggerty withholding the will from Chris--or did Chris's adoptive sister, who rejects his claim, shoot the man and steal the will? In their search for answers, Bert and Nan give readers plenty of thrills as well as an entertaining glimpse into the lives of identical twins. (Feb.)
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Double Dealer ($20.00; Feb.; 256 pp.; 1-57566-507-7) Those irrepressible twins, Nan and Bert Tatum, are up to their identical necks in murder again. The victim now is antiques dealer Franklin Haggerty, whose business practices are as sharp as his temper; the leading suspect is Bert's daughter Ellie, who'd swapped legally charged accusations with him; and the range of whimsical/threatening/didactic adventures among the crowd of antique suspects is just what you'd expect from Nan and Bert's first three cases (Double Cross, 1998, etc.). -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.