Authors: Sharon Fiffer
The Wrong Stuff (25 page)
Killer Stuff
Dead Guy's Stuff
Thank you to my familyâmy husband, Steve, my first and best reader, and our children, Kate, Nora, and Rob, who provide witty commentary as well as the patience necessary for having writer parents. To the following, my sincere thanks for wonderful friendship as well as various forms of expertise: Judy Groothuis, Dr. Dennis Groothuis, Chuck Shotwell, Lynn Shotwell, Cas Rooney, Lauren Paulson, Michael Swartz, and Sheldon Zenner. Thanks to Gail Hochman for being a writer's best friend. Thanks to Kelley Ragland and Ben Sevier at St. Martin's for asking all the right questions (providing more than a few answers, too), my copy editor, Marcy Hargan, and thank you, Anne Twomey, for designing such knockout covers.
Note
Two authentic Brewster chairs with excellent provenances are known to exist. The chair built by Armand LaMontagne is still owned by the Henry Ford Museum and is often loaned to other museums for exhibits on fakes and forgeries. There are no known Westman Sunflower Chests; however, I suggest we all keep our eyes open.
THE WRONG STUFF.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fiffer, Sharon Sloan, 1951â
The wrong stuff / Sharon Fiffer.â1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-0-312-31414-9
1. Wheel, Jane (Fictitious character)âFiction. 2. Women private investigatorsâIllinoisâChicagoâFiction. 3. Antique dealersâFiction. 4. Chicago (Ill.)âFiction. 5. Suburban lifeâFiction. I. Title.
PS3606.137W76 2003
813'.54âdc21
2003047025