Edwin of the Iron Shoes Author:Marcia Muller Sharon McCone, a tough-minded investigator for a legal services cooperative, noses her way through the tainted underbelly of a San Francisco street occupied by an eclectic assortment of dealers in antiques, pseudo art and junk. She's after a killer who slashed a diminutive victim, antique dealer Joan Albritton, with the victim's own bone-handled... more » knife.
Ferreting out the facts steers McCone from a world of seedy peddlers into the rarefied society, where the smuggling of fine art flourishes. But perhaps nothing is spookier than a visit to the victim's dark shop where McCone will find a secret that someone killed (and will kill again) to keep.« less