Search - The Cheshire Cat's Eye (Sharon McCone, Bk 2)

Great series. Easy reading. This is one of the early ones, but it's entertaining.

To tourist, bay-windowed Victorian mansions are quaint, peaceful symbols of old San Francisco. But on the secluded hill above Steiner Street, the gingerbread has sparked a bitter battle between the ambitious developers and the residents who do not want their homes restored. As workmen rip though layers of sheetrock, plaster and wallpaper they unearth a cache of stolen antiques and a missing one of a kind Tiffany lamp emblazoned with the profile of a Cheshire Cat.

Female detective finds a friend dead in a pool of red paint in a victorian home he was restoring. Very good.

Another in the Sharon McCone series set in San Francisco. She learns much about the "Painted Ladies" and a one-of-a-kind Tiffany lamp....and is implicated in her friend Jake's death.