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Bearing her antique pewter teapot, Margaret Binton joins the crowd of hopefuls waiting to show their treasured junk to an expert at the annual free-appraisal day of a great New York auction house. There she runs into her old friend Hannah, who has just brought in an antique coin for appraisal. Minutes later, Hannah is stabbed to death - and the coin vanishes. The police are apathetic, but Margaret is not about to let this outrage go unavenged, especially as she had a good look at the person she's sure killed Hannah. Soon it's war - between the West Side's most fearless senior citizen and a…
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3 editions- Other · English · 1991Fawcett · 9780449218136
- Other · English · 1982Dial Press · 220 pages · 9780385276337
- Other · English · 1982Thorndike Press · 313 pages · 9780896214194
Margaret Binton (Fictitious character)Women detectivesFictionLarge type booksNew york (n.y.), fiction











