• Local antiques dealer, dead in a one-car accident on his way home from an antiques exposition in Columbus, Ohio

• Two Scranton, Pennsylvania, antiques dealers dead of smoke inhalation

• Massachusetts antiques dealer dead of substance abuse at an auction in Sharon, Connecticut

• Antiques dealer dies in his booth at the Westchester (New York) Antiques Show

Ignorance is truly bliss for recently widowed Maggie Summer, owner of Shadows Antiques, when she arrives at the prestigious Rensselaer County Spring Antiques Fair. Sadly, she won't remain ignorant of the suspiciously high mortality rate among her fellow antiques dealers for long.

Rumors are everywhere. The most recent victim, John Smithson, died of poison at a show just last week, and many of the same dealers are here at Rensselaer. They make the identical circuit year after year, so they know each other well. Or do they?

Murder is still far from Maggie's mind as she arranges her ...