The Gun Also Rises (A Sarah W. Garage Sale Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
6th in Series
Kensington (January 29, 2019)
Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

Synopsis

TO RECOVER A PRICELESS MANUSCRIPT . . .

A wealthy widow has asked Sarah Winston to sell her massive collection of mysteries through her garage sale business. While sorting through piles of books stashed in the woman’s attic, Sarah is amazed to discover a case of lost Hemingway stories, stolen from a train in Paris back in 1922. How did they end up in Belle Winthrop Granville’s attic in Ellington, Massachusetts, almost one hundred years later?

WILL SARAH HAVE TO PAY WITH HER LIFE?

Before Sarah can get any answers, Belle is assaulted, the case is stolen, a maid is killed, and Sarah herself is dodging bullets. And when rumors spread that Belle has a limited edition of The Sun Also Rises in her house, Sarah is soon mixed up with a mobster, the fanatical League of Literary Treasure Hunters, and a hard-to-read rare book dealer. With someone willing to kill for the Hemingway, Sarah has to race to catch the culprit—or the bell may toll for her . . .

Guest Post

It seemed like such a great job opportunity. Who wouldn’t want to get paid to organize and price a collection of mystery books? Add to that that I would be doing it in a lovely mansion with an attic that was a clean, well-lighted place to work. Hi, I’m Sarah Winston and I run a business organizing garage sales in Ellington, Massachusetts.

And it was great until I made a huge find! Hemingway manuscripts that were stolen in 1922 and thought to have disappeared forever. Hadley Hemingway was taking the train from Paris to Lausanne, Switzerland to meet Ernest. She thought he’d be delighted when she packed his Nick Adams manuscripts along with the carbon copies so he could show them to a friend. Once on the train, Hadley stashed her luggage and went in search of a bottle of water. When she came back the bag with the manuscripts was gone. Never to be seen again until I found them in Miss Belle’s attic almost one hundred years later.

I took the manuscripts straight down to Miss Belle and explained what they were. She looked so shocked. I confess I did wonder if it was shocking that I’d found them or shock that they were in her house. She quickly professed she no prior knowledge of their existence. If Miss Belle was lying she really deserves a best actress award.

So by now, you must be asking what isn’t great about this find? Oh, it’s what happened next. Something that I’ll regret for the rest of my life. I left the manuscripts with Miss Belle. She asked me to and it is her house so I couldn’t say no. Miss Belle wanted to think about how they could have possibly ended up here. Her exact words were, “Give me a few minutes alone, please.” And as I walked out of the room I heard her say, “How can this be?”

After continuing to sort through a stack of old Nancy Drew mysteries I decided to go back down and check on Miss Belle. As I went down the stairs I hear a thump and a cry. Not good. When I ran into Miss Belle’s study she was on the floor with a knot swelling up on the side of her head. The overnight case was nowhere to be found.

Miss Belle beseeched me to go in search of the manuscripts. I won’t tell you all of the details here, but it didn’t go well. And even though we tried to keep it quiet word got out that the manuscripts and been found then lost again. I swear people lost their minds. Reporters swarmed the town and this crazy group of people who called themselves The League of Literary Treasure Hunters were everywhere I turned. It got so bad I wasn’t even able to stay in my own apartment.

The only way to return to some sense of normalcy was to figure out who stole the manuscripts. It wasn’t easy and what happen shocked even me.

About the Author

Agatha award nominated author, Sherry Harris, started bargain hunting in second grade at her best friend’s yard sale. She honed her bartering skills as she moved around the country while her husband served in the Air Force. Sherry uses her love of garage sales, her life as a military spouse, and her time living in Massachusetts as inspiration for the Sarah Winston Garage Sale series.

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