Garage Sale Mystery

Jennifer, a shop owner who acquired antiques at auction, learns that Martin, the owner of a storage facility she rents, has gone missing. Having witnessed an argument between them earlier, she cooperates with the detective and, having figured out the circumstances of the crime, becomes engrossed in solving the case. When she visits Martin's wife, she feels a strong sense of unease about the wife's story, which contradicts her conversations with Martin when he was alive.

One day, Jennifer's college friend Sandra paid a long-overdue visit to “Rags to Riches.” Sandra had been running an antique shop with her fiancé Michael, but since they were closing down, she invited Jennifer to come take a look at the shop's inventory if she was interested.

Jennifer went to deliver an item to Henley, an elderly man who had purchased a bird sculpture at “Rugs,” only to find him dead. There were no signs of a struggle, and the police tried to dismiss it as a heart attack caused by alcohol, but Jennifer wasn't convinced. When the autopsy revealed massive nicotine intake as the direct cause of death, Jennifer realized it resembled a murder method from a novel she'd read before, but she couldn't remember which book it was.