When Sidney Lake learned the author's copy of Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall had been stolen, he firmly believed he would never see it again, much less hold it in his hands. But there it was. In the hands of an appraiser at the National Arts And Crafts Show. Could it be the same three-volume first edition of the book? He had to find out.

Assembling his experienced team of investigators, they begin searching for the appraiser, who is believed to be from Savannah, Georgia, in the hope of being led to the young man who claimed to be the owner of the book. But before they get fully underway, Tillie James, his Gullah companion, and confidant drops out of the group as a ninety-year-old Gullah woman is threatened with losing her home at a delinquent tax sale. The woman had been deceptively tricked by a real estate attorney into not paying the tax claiming he had a way around it.

Could there be a connection between rare book thefts and attempts to steal land from Gullah residents of the Pirate Islands?

Sidney and his associates decide to pursue both the tax fraud deception and the possible Brontë book forgery at the same time and keep running into coincidences. But are they?

The Lowcountry of South Carolina takes center stage as Sidney Lake and Tillie James pursue the answers to questions not everyone wants asked.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	298
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Black Opal Books
Fecha de Publicación	2022-06-22
Dimensiones	8.0" x 5.25" x 0.62" pulgadas
Serie	Sidney Lake Lowcountry Mystery
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Pequeño Pueblo, Rural, Pequeño Pueblo, Rural, Pequeño Pueblo, Rural, Pequeño Pueblo, Rural, Pequeño Pueblo, Rural, Pequeño Pueblo, Rural, Pequeño Pueblo, Rural, Pequeño Pueblo, Rural, Pequeño Pueblo, Rural, Pequeño Pueblo, Rural

Holland, Timothy

Tim Holland is the author of the Sidney Lake Lowcountry Mystery Series as well as the novel What the Mirror Doesn't See. He recently received a Keating award for his fiction.Over the years, he has written for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, on a contributing basis, and wrote book reviews and literary criticism for Recorder Publishing in New Jersey. He also wrote a monthly column for The Beaufort Gazette, Beaufort, SC when he served as Chairman of the Learning Exchange of the University of South Carolina Beaufort. During his time with a major financial institutional in New York, he specialized in global finance and product management and wrote numerous articles on international trade and product management for financial trade publications. His writing career began while at St. Bonaventure University where he studied English Literature and was the editor of the literary magazine, The Laurel. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Williamsburg Book Festival, is a member of Mystery Writers of America, The Brontë Society of Haworth, Yorkshire, England, and is a frequent speaker at writing events both large and small.