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Blurb from Fatal Purchase
Get the Buddha at any price! " were Henry Maxfield's instructions to
Rhana Haines, young and attractive dealer in Oriental art. But,
strangely enough, the auctioneer knocked it down to her at a tenth of
its value. Strangely, too, there was something artistically wrong with
the Buddha, and Mr. Maxwell was noted for the perfection of his
collection. Yet there was nothing Rhana could put her finger on, nothing
to really arouse her suspicions until she found she had purchased a
method of murder.
So Anne Rowe begins her newest murder mystery. There's action and drama,
plot and counterplot, the romance of art and the romance of flesh and
blood—all against the Maine shore. A house whose front is pure New
England colonial, but whose rear—facing the pounding surf— duplicates
even to its terraces, statuary and water gardens, Henry Maxfield's
one-time home in China. More than providing a two-faced setting for
international intrigue, it is the symbol of the man and his fate.
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