Antiques picker and PI Jane Wheel returns to her hometown to find a comedian's TV special has turned deadly in the eighth of Sharon Fiffer's charming mystery series. With her divorce final, Jane must clear out her antique collection and sell her house. Now homeless, Jane heads to Kankekee, IL, her hometown, to find it, too, has been turned upside-down. Lucky Miller - a little-known comedian - is staging a comeback. Suspicious, Jane's mother Nellie hires Jane to investigate. But why does Nellie care? Lucky would sure like to know, so he, too, calls on Jane to find out. Still, Nellie may be the least of his problems when a driver on his crew turns up dead hours after claiming that Lucky tried to kill him.

Examining mysterious fragments found buried near her mother's home in Kankakee, Illinois, antique collector Jane Wheel identifies the remains of a murdered city official and become embroiled in the ensuing investigation.

From Bakelite jewelry to jadeite dishes, antiques "picker" Jane Wheel has a knack for hunting down vintage collectibles. And when a Chicago estate sale yields a room full of dusty tavern memorabilia, she hits pay dirt once again. Most of this "dead guy's stuff" is just perfect for decorating her parents' newly renovated bar & grill in Kankakee, Illinois. Most of this stuff...except for the finger pickled in a jar of formaldehyde. Uncertain what to do about the mysterious "body part," Jane asks former homicide detective Bruce Oh to see if the detached digit is connected to a crime. Meanwhile she is carting her tavern treasures down to Kankakee unaware that her hometown's darkest secrets are buried in her boxes...or that her talent for finding things will lead to a corpse, a kidnapping, and a chilling threat to those she loves most....

Heading to Hollywood when Wren Bixby, owner of Bix Pix Flix, purchases the rights to her story, private detective Jane Wheel becomes embroiled in a murder mystery when a screenwriting friend is accused of killing his old writing partner.

Vowing to reorganize her life after disappointing her young son, antiques picker Jane Wheel, having recently accepted a job with a private investigations office, takes a case involving an antiques dealer, her co-worker's wife, who has been accused of murder. Reprint.

While cataloguing her loot from a Chicago-area estate sale, antiques lover Jane Wheeler discovers among the contents of a 1950s-era tavern that she had bought a human finger in a tiny jar and embarks on an investigation into a decades-old mystery. By the author of Killer Stuff. Reprint.

With her career and marriage on the skids, Jane Wheel is headed for a mid-life crisis, making a living by picking up treasures at local garage sales, flee markets, and auctions, but when she discovers the body of her next-door neighbor, she channels some of her nervous energy into solving the crime. A first novel. Reprint.