Ruby Sisson Library

Abigail Timberlake, proprietor of the Den of Antiquity antique shop is sole inheritor of the Wiggins estate. Aunt Lula Mae Wiggins, who drowned in a bathtub of cheap champagne, was a distant relative.

A fire during Abigail Timberlake's Halloween costume party is the cover someone uses to leave the body of Abby's ex-husband's current wife in a suit of armor.

Abigail Timberlake Washburn would rather be anywhere else on a muggy Charleston summer evening -- even putting in extra hours at her antiques shop -- than at a séance. But her best friend, "Calamity Jane," thinks a spirit -- or "Apparition American," as ectoplasmically-correct Abby puts it -- lurks in the eighteenth-century Georgian mansion, complete with priceless, seventeenth-century Portuguese kitchen tiles, that C.J. just bought as a fixer-upper....

Winning the bid at an auction for the contents of an old locker that has been sealed for years, Abigail Timberlake Washburn is delighted to discover a collection of beautiful old walking sticks--as well as a gym bag containing a human skull--and joins forces with her assistant and future sister-in-law C.J. to uncover a killer.

All antiques dealer Abigail Timberlake Washburn wanted was to find a perfect gift for her darling (if not altogether together) mama Mozella's birthday. She never expected her online purchase of an exquisite, seventeenth-century rosewood linen chest to place her in federal custody, accused of trafficking in illegal ivory! Then insult is heaped on her injury when she's forced to turn to her lawyer-snake ex, Buford, to spring her -- since ex-cop/current...