Gold By Gemini

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ANTIQUES is a lovely but murderous game.

Some bits of this story you won't like. I'm telling you now just in case, but that's the way it is in the world of antiques. It's crammed with love, fear, greed, death, hate and ecstasy. I should know - I'm an antique dealer. And don't chuck this book away in disgust just because I've owned up and told you the truth.

I'm the only person in it you can trust.

I was with Brenda on her sofa.

For nearly a month I'd been scouring the surrounding villages without even a sniff of an antique except for a ninth-rate copy of a Norwich School painting, and a Bingham -

imagine a blue glaze on the daftest exotic porcelain dreamed up in a nightmare - and I'd had to sweat blood for those. Both were left for collecting later. Both were still unpaid for. The knack is to look fresh and casual when the woman (ten to one it's a woman) opens the door. I've only one suit I try to jazz up with a splash of red, a plastic flower. Then I knock and give them my patter, smiling like an ape.

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