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Gilt By Association (A Den of Antiquity Mystery) Mass Market Paperback – December 1, 1996

by Tamar Myers (Author)
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Petite, indomitable North Carolinian Abigail Timberlake rose gloriously up from the ashes of divorce--parlaying her savvy about exquisite old things into a thriving antiques enterprise: the Den of Antiquity. Now she's a force to be reckoned with in Charlotte's close-knit world of mavens, eccentrics and cuttthroat dealers. But a superb, gilt-edged 18th-century French armoire she purchased for a song at estate auction has just arrived along with something she didn't pay for: a dead body.

Suddenly her shop is a crime scene--and closed to the public during the busiest shopping season of the year--so Abigail is determined to speed the lumbering police investigation along. But amateur sleuthing is leading the feisty antiques expert into a murderous mess of dysfunctional family secrets. And the next cadaver found stuffed into fine old furniture could wind up being Abigail's own.

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    Den of Antiquity
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  5. Publication date
    December 1, 1996
  6. Dimensions
    4.19 x 0.64 x 6.75 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0380782375
  8. ISBN-13
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Number two in the series featuring goings-on at the Den of Antiquity in Charlotte, N.C., has gals (never women) who say y'all and Hey! in greeting, but, except for some magnolias toward the end, precious little Southern atmosphere. Narrator/proprietor Abigail Timberlake, whose mama wears crinolines while cleaning house, is four feet nine inches of indefatigable perkiness who, when it comes right down to it, would rather die than not be cute. A serviceable story involving a corpse that has bloodied a valuable armoire is frequently stopped in its tracks by wildly exaggerated descriptions and non sequiturs that are seldom funny and often tasteless ("[Y]ou wouldn't like it if I farted on your food, would you?"). Random bits about antiques may lure other readers, but true appreciators will be die-hard cozy addicts.--ou wouldn't like it if I farted on your food, would you?"). Random bits about antiques may lure other readers, but true appreciators will be die-hard cozy addicts.
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Petite, indomitable North Carolinian Abigail Timberlake rose gloriously up from the ashes of divorce--parlaying her savvy about exquisite old things into a thriving antiques enterprise: the Den of Antiquity. Now she's a force to be reckoned with in Charlotte's close-knit world of mavens, eccentrics and cuttthroat dealers. But a superb, gilt-edged 18th-century French armoire she purchased for a song at estate auction has just arrived along with something she didn't pay for: a dead body.

Suddenly her shop is a crime scene--and closed to the public during the busiest shopping season of the year--so Abigail is determined to speed the lumbering police investigation along. But amateur sleuthing is leading the feisty antiques expert into a murderous mess of dysfunctional family secrets. And the next cadaver found stuffed into fine old furniture could wind up being Abigail's own.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow Paperbacks (December 1, 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0380782375
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0380782376
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 0.64 x 6.75 inches
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    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 41 ratings

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Tamar Myers, who is of Mennonite background, is the author of the Pennsylvania Dutch mysteries and the Den of Antiquity series. Born and raised in the Congo, she lives in North Carolina.

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  • Karin Fox
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2010
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    This is the second book in the Den of Antiquity series and I just love it! It reads easily, is very relaxing and as the suspense is building up, you will laugh out loud many times throughout the book. I often like to read just before going to bed and do not like to read heavy or cruel material as it affects my sleep. Tamar Myer's books are just wonderful bedtime reading and I highly recommend this book!!!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Extra twists
    Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2014
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    "Larceny and Old Lace" was a bit better, but still love all the characters. I think the ending left a few unanswered questions but might find them in the next book. Still a good story.
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  • Ethel S. Rasure
    3.0 out of 5 stars Guilt By Association
    Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2013
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    This series is an "okay" time filler, but I do not care to give it shelf space in my library.
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  • Margo Atkinson
    4.0 out of 5 stars Gilt By Association Mystery
    Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2013
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    A lively and clever story. Good escape reading. Easy to like the characters. Surprise at the end and a satisfying story.
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  • Charlene of Stoney Beach
    5.0 out of 5 stars Myers is great!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2013
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    Always an enjoyable read. Tamar is a vacation on paper who takes you away from day to day routine into a world of adventure.
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  • Terra Lynn Yoshida
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2018
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    Great!
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  • Linda G. Shelnutt
    5.0 out of 5 stars Mix & Match Menageries; Don't Miss the Merry Mayhem!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2005
    The easy flow of Abby's sunny sarcasm, her smoothing of the satiric-edge trademark of Magdelana Yoder gave me a cozier live in, in Tamar Meyers's DEN OF ANTIQUITY series than I experienced in the Pen Dutch literary gourmet style, though both series are awesome in their humorous capture of human foibles at their least and most sublime. What a writer!

    The mansions, restaurants, coffee or tea breaks, and munching while clueing all served to keep me reading onward, happy as a clam. I quickly and contentedly sliped into reading along with a relaxed writer/artist who obviously has fun with her craft as she's creating.

    Considering the flow of this novel in retrospect, I'm intrigued that I recall no feeling of author angst or effort underlying the movement of plot, fleshing of characters, click of dialogue, or lay out of descriptions. Maybe Tamar's unusual background could expalin her obvious confidence in her work and its process:

    She grew up in the Belgian Congo as a member of a missionary family, passed a childhood in that conflict-rich environment with religious upbringing, returned as a teen to the USA by force of cultural growing pains in the Congo, met her husband-to-be the first day at a US school, accomplished a MA in English, then worked 23 years to launch her two currently successful series. What a perfect background for evolving into a literary pundit.

    I believe what I enjoy most about this series is the various routinely-natural and effortlessly-entertaining ways Abby worries out her mystery and interviews suspects, often over a meal in a luxury setting or at least one with rich aromatic ambiance of one intensity or another. Hey. I'm a culinary cozy addict. I couldn't ask for more.

    Here are a couple of my favorite Abby clue-strewing scenes:

    Bubble bath contemplations with her cat batting bubbles ...

    Ex husbands' current wife gives Abby a makeover as the current "homemaker" moans over now being the other woman, while Abby soothes the angst of her exhusband's wife with whom he cheated on Abby ... Yeah. And the scene works with both irony and warmth!

    That's all great setting and satire, but this might take the cake:

    >> "I really need to smoke while I eat," she (woman Abby was "grilling") said. To be truthful, she didn't sound nasty about it at all. Merely desperate.

    >> "I'm sure you'll find enough second-hand smoke to fill your dietary needs," I (Abby) said kindly.

    >> She looked genuinely torn between lunch with me and a solitary pack of coffin nails.

    >> "Okay, you can smoke, but blow that nasty stuff away from my plate. I mean, you wouldn't like it if I farted on your food, would you?" <<

    This was quite descriptively good as well:

    >>I exhaled loudly, for all the world sounding like a punctured tire.<<

    The humor in this author effervesces so easily there's probably quite a bit of it which slides right by, making second and third reading a rewarding venture. Whatever Myers offers you can bet on its being uniquely complex, edgy and hilarious, intriguing and natural in a funny, off-beat way.

    Of course Abby's excursions & exchanges with the gay Rob & Bob are delightfully warm & funny, and the gutsy gourmet meals Bob concocts which Rob & Abby beg to avoid are interestingly mouth watering ... from a distance.

    Really enjoyed the way Abby dealt with her approach/avoidance conflict (romancing ever-after Vs dragging feet) as her relationship with trained police investigator Greg Washburn grows more intimate and skidds toward commitment.

    This is a work of sheer and simple entertainment with a backwash of stereotypes squashed and genuine relating relished. Lots of hilarious mix & mismatch is stirred effervescently into the kettles of cuisine, means of marriage, ways of mystery, and action-packed menageries.

    Take it. You won't leave it for long.

    Excellent storytelling and wordsmithing, Tamar! You prove the blessing and richness of your talent with every breath and every keystroke. Believe it.

    Linda Shelnutt
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  • Dennis Phillips
    4.0 out of 5 stars Pass the Sweet and Sour Okra Please
    Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2005
    Abigail Temberlake, the owner of an antique shop in Charlotte, North Carolina buys an expensive 18th century French armoire at an auction and this story begins when the armoire is delivered to her shop. The armoire is not what kicks off the story; it is instead the body that she finds inside. The police don't suspect her in the murder but they close down her shop while they investigate and she finds herself momentarily out of business with Christmas just weeks away. Needing desperately to get her shop opened back up, Abigail decides to use her newly found free time to do some investigating of her own.

    Abigail is not, nor does she consider herself to be a detective, which is a refreshing change within the genera of book. She bumbles and stumbles her way along the trail of clues with all the subtlety of the proverbial bull in a china shop. Along the way her shop is burglarized, her house is broken into while she soaks in the tub and an elderly lady with whom she is about to have tea is poisoned. Finally, while following a false trail she stumbles onto the real killer and once again finds herself in mortal danger.

    Many of the characters from the first book are inexplicably missing from this story. I can't help but wonder why the author spent so much time introducing her readers to the Charlotte antique community in the first book of this series if she were just going to drop them in the second. Especially noticeable is the absence of Tony who inherited the shop next to Abigail's in the last book. Suddenly there is a new person in that shop named Jane who the other shop owners refer to as CJ, short for Calamity Jane. She comes from out of nowhere to play a major role in this story, second only to Abigail who is of course the heroine. Rob and his partner Bob still have major roles in this story as does Yankee Bob's cuisine, which includes fish broth. Rob keeps asking for steak or hamburger and one cold night he and Abigail sneak out onto the patio and eat a box of doughnuts after a dinner of roasted eel. Wynnell is also still a very visible character and she still blames all misfortune on Yankees.

    These characters and the very Southern atmosphere more than make up for a plot that gets a little lost at times. Abigail is a little brash for a Southern lady, or gentleman for that matter but she does run to the store and stock up on milk and bread after the radio weather mentions snow. We Southerners do tend to panic when we hear the s word. I absolutely fell in love with Bubba's China Gourmet, a restaurant that specializes in Southern Chinese food. Not food from Southern China, Abigail explains, but Chinese food from the South. Their specialties include stir-fried collard greens, sweet and sour okra and moo goo gai grits. There is also a Catholic Funeral at which a very tall Presbyterian gentleman sits up front having no idea when to sit, stand or kneel. Since most of the people at the service are also not Catholic and have no idea what to do they follow the lead of the man up front. Needless to say half of the crowd is always doing the wrong thing at the wrong time making a shambles of the funeral.

    This is obviously not a hard core mystery but there are still areas of the book where I couldn't wait to see what happened next. This is a light-hearted, happy mystery that will make you laugh out loud and maybe even crave some stir-fried collards. The last chapter is almost like a scene out of the Waltons that ends not with "good night John-Boy" but with "shut up Jane" and "a Merry Christmas was had by all", even Jewish Rob. Just like the merry time you will have as you journey with Tamar Myers through this engaging and hilarious Southern mystery.
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