Marcia Muller: Edwin of the Iron Shoes (USA 2012)

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The book that launched the massively popular series! It's Sharon McCone's first case as staff investigator for All Souls Legal Cooperative. She knows nothing about antiques, yet she has an affection for Salem Street with its charming mix of antique and curio shops. Now elderly dealer Joan Albritton has been found dead, stabbed with an antique dagger. Her neighbors are shocked. Recurring vandalism has them frightened. And McCone's introduction to Lieutenant Gregory Marcus doesn't help matters. Ferreting out the facts will take Sharon from the chaotic jumble of the junk dealer's establishment to a museum where San Francisco's most elegant socialites gather.

Marcia Muller: Edwin of the Iron Shoes. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Blackstone, ISBN: 9781609986551 (April, 2012), 487 KB (ca. 184 p.), $6.99.

Marcia Muller: Edwin of the Iron Shoes (UK 1998)

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Featuring Sharon McCone, Private Investigator
Sharon McCone, Private Eye. Single, strong, scrupulous and sharp. Drawn Into investigating San Francisco crime, she fights corruption and supports the powerless.

When a small-time antique shop owner is found murdered -- stabbed with a bone-handled dagger from one of her own displays -- Sharon McCone's first case begins...

And it doesn't look easy - her only witnesses are the shop's inhabitants: Clothilde, the headless dressmaker's dummy; Bruno, the stuffed German shepherd; and Edwin, the little-boy mannequin with ornate iron shoes.

But soon she has a range of suspects, among them Cara Ingalls, a socialite business tycoon; Charlie the junkman, once the victim's lover.. and a group of high-powered real estate speculators, each with his own reason for closing down the curio shops of San Francisco's Salem Street, and each seemingly willing to twist and break the law to get what he wants.

McCone is determined to crack the case... but neither antiques nor people are quite what they seem...

Marcia Muller: Edwin of the Iron Shoes. The First Sharon McCone Mystery. The Women's Press, ISBN: 0704343649 (January, 1998), 215 p., £5.99.

Marcia Muller: Edwin of the Iron Shoes (USA 1993)

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It's Sharon McCone's first case as staff investigator for All Souls Legal Cooperative. She knows nothing about antiques, yet she has an affection for Salem Street with its charming mix of antique and curio shops. Now elderly dealer Joan Albritton has been found dead, stabbed with an antique dagger. Her neighbors are shocked. Recurring vandalism has them frightened. Ferreting out the facts will take Sharon from the chaotic jumble of the junk dealer's establishment to a museum where San Francisco's most elegant socialites gather. But it is not until she is alone in Joan's dark shop with Clothilde, the headless dressmaker's dummy; Bruno, the stuffed German shepherd; and Edwin, the little boy mannequin in the ornate iron shoes that she will have the chance to discover the murderous secret someone will kill-and kill again -- to keep.

Marcia Muller: Edwin of the Iron Shoes. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0445409029 (July, 1993), 215 p., $4.99.

Marcia Muller: Edwin of the Iron Shoes (USA 1990)

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PRIVATE EYE SHARON McCONE'S first case opens when a small-time antique shop owner is found murdered-stabbed with a bone-handled dagger from one of her own display cases. The witnesses aren't talking, for they are the mute inhabitants of the shop: Clothilde, a headless dressmaker's dummy; Bruno, the stuffed German shepherd; and Edwin, the little boy mannequin with ornate iron shoes.

Among the suspects are Cara Ingalls, a socialite business tycoon; Charlie the junkman, who had once been the victim's lover... and a group of high-powered real estate speculators, each with his own reason for closing down the curio shops of San Francisco's Salem Street, and each seemingly willing to twist and break the law to get what he wants.

Patronized and discouraged by the homicide lieutenant in charge of the case, Sharon is determined to find the facts behind the death of the shopkeeper, her employers' client. And she is to discover that neither antiques nor people are exactly what they seem...

Marcia Muller: Edwin of the Iron Shoes. A Sharon McCone Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0445409029 (April, 1990), 215 p., $3.95.

Marcia Muller: Edwin of the Iron Shoes (USA 1978)

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A wood-carved little-boy mannequin wearing ornate iron shoes is the key to an elaborate scheme involving arson, vandalism... and murder. When a small-time San Francisco antique dealer is stabbed to death with a valuable bone-handled dagger from one of her own display cases, Sharon McCone -- a young, tough, and spunky investigator for a legal-services cooperative -- is employed to solve the case. The most obvious suspects appear to be real-estate speculators -- each with his own reason for forcing shopkeepers out of the area, and each seemingly willing to commit whatever crime is necessary to get what he wants. Ignoring threats against her own life, Sharon pursues her investigation, encountering more mayhem and death as she discovers that neither antiques nor people are always what they seem.

Marcia Muller: Edwin of the Iron Shoes. Penguin Books, ISBN: 0140049150 (June, 1978), 192 p., $1.95.

Marcia Muller: Edwin of the Iron Shoes (USA 1977)

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Sharon McCone is a female private eye who bears little resemblance to Miss Marple. She's young and tough and stubborn, and her striking good looks reflect her one-eighth American Indian ancestry.

Employed as an investigator in San Francisco by a bohemian legal cooperative, she is summoned to the scene of the crime when a client, a small-time antique shop proprie-tor, is found murdered, stabbed with a valuable bone-handled dagger from one of her own display cases.

The obvious suspects are a group of high-powered real estate speculators, each with his own reason for forcing the owners of the junk and curio shops along Salem Street out of the area, and each seemingly willing to commit arson, vandalism... and murder to get what he wants. The not-so-obvious suspects range from the glamorous to the grizzled -- from Cara Ingalls, a socialite business tycoon whose femininity is of the tigress variety, to Charlie, the junkman with a tainted past who had once been the victim's lover.

The only witnesses can't speak, for the dead woman's best friends were the inanimate inhabitants of her shop: Clothilde, a headless French dressmaker's form; Bruno, the stuffed german Shepherd; and Edwin, the little-boy mannequin with ornate iron shoes.

Marcia Muller: Edwin of the Iron Shoes. A Novel of Suspense. McKay-Washburn, ISBN: 0679507825 (October, 1977), 178 p., $7.95.