A Charles Ramsay Mystery: Some Dark Antiquities

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Antique dealing is a hazardous career, full of guile and deception, forgery and roguery—but it occasionally throws up items fit to kill for.The trouble begins when Charles Ramsay agrees to arrange the sale of a medieval reliquary donated years ago to a country church by a self-made millionaire. But first he must commission a facsimile of this historic casket from the local silversmith.Doubts arise when the selfsame craftsman is found clinging to the church tower. Was he intending suicide? Is the precious casket still safe? Is it even authentic? And who are the mysterious buyers so keenly pursuing it?With these and several other questions begging to be answered, Ramsay finds himself getting increasingly involved with the silversmith’s wife, as they set off in search of her disappearing husband.And only after foiling some highly elaborate attempts at theft will he finally learn the true origins of the coveted reliquary.