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The Marriage Casket: An Antique Lover's Mystery

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This book see the third installment of the Jeff Talbot series.

Jeff, a retired FBI man now works for himself as an antique picker. In this book he has bought the entire contents of a house belonging to an old woman. When the nephew who sold the wares to Jeff is arrested on suspicion of murder Jeff senses something is wrong. As he digs in to the woman's past he discovers what made her who she was and why what happened did happen.

A great book on many levels. I love the characters, I love the knowledge of antiques and the plotting is first rate.

I look forward to more.

Jon Jordan

This is the third of a series by Deborah Morgan and is an interesting read, filled with information about antiques and the life of the "hero" and his family and extended family. We meet a new memer of the family a sister of Sheila, who is a photographer and a very extroverted character. The wife, Sheila has agoraphobia and is house bound....and keeps herself occupied with computer shopping, watching movies and gourmet cooking. In this book, Sheila has found a psychiatrist who will come to the home to help her learn coping skills dealing with her illness. Hopefully this will open doors where Sheila can go "picking" with Jeff, and become a more intricate part of the story. One of the reasons I read this series is that I am an agroaphobic and am very interested in how the author handles this illness.

Ms. Morgan's books were not something that appealed to me initiatlly, but now i am reading the 4th in the series! The characters Jeff talbot, his wife and butler make an intriguing central core for the books plots.
The Marriage Casket is an excellent plot. One i haven't seen too often. I didn't figure this one out and as an avid mystery reader this idoesn't happen too often.

THe bibiliography at the back of this novel, as with her others, is a fine start to those who want to learn more about antiques and such.

I love these books. Our interlibrary loans do not allow holds on her books but I have found them on Amazon. I had a bout with agoraphobia and the main character's wife suffers from it. I didn't suffer the way she seems to, so I hope in future books she gets well.The antiques are the interesting part as well as the mystery itself. I highly reccomend these books and wish there were more with antiques in the plots written by different authors.
As for the phobia, hypnotism cured mine!!

Sorry, while I enjoy reading about Jeff Talbot I think that The Marriage Casket is a really weak read. Sorry, I'll stick with the more popular authors when it comes to mystery.

This was a wonderful read - the mystery plot was great and so was the backstory of Sheila's fight to regain some normalcy in her life. An inspiring and interesting book! While the ending was unexpected, it made perfect sense once you got to it. I can't wait to read more from this author!

I love Deborah Morgan's titles. They all sound gruesome, but actually refer to harmless objects. This is the third "Antique Lover's Mystery" I've read...and hope there's many more to come. And the solution...caught me completely unawares! I haven't read mysteries in years...it was the antique aspect that drew me to this series. But...I just might start looking around for other mysteries to entertain me. Hope the characters are all as well-drawn as Jeff, Sheila, Greer and company!