A shady museum curator, a small Blue Ridge Mountain town, burglary, rumors, and murder . . . Lewis Wilder thinks he's found an uncomplicated life when he takes the job as curator of the history museum in Nolichucky, Tennessee, a town snoozing in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He's wrong in so many ways. While Wilder is getting to know his new neighbors, the Fox, a burglar with a sense of style, is getting acquainted with the neighbors' portable antiques. Then, anonymous envelopes of cash start arriving at the ...
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A shady museum curator, a small Blue Ridge Mountain town, burglary, rumors, and murder . . . Lewis Wilder thinks he's found an uncomplicated life when he takes the job as curator of the history museum in Nolichucky, Tennessee, a town snoozing in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He's wrong in so many ways. While Wilder is getting to know his new neighbors, the Fox, a burglar with a sense of style, is getting acquainted with the neighbors' portable antiques. Then, anonymous envelopes of cash start arriving at the museum. Coincidence? Complicating matters further are anonymous phone calls, a journalist asking too many questions, a lecherous guitar picker, a wealthy boor, the boor's libidinous wife, and Wilder's own tangled past. Wilder Rumors is a small town mystery with Southern Appalachian charm and humor. Lewis Wilder's entanglements with rumors, burglary, and murder keep the inhabitants of Nolichucky entertained, as surely as they will the reader.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Inscribed By the Author Lewis Wilder, new curator at the history museum in a small Tennessee town, finds he is surrounded by interesting and unusual citizens, including a burglar who is stealing antiques. When anonymous envelopes of cash start arriving at the museum, the sheriff becomes suspicious of the new curator. Small letter written on the front end paper, jacket in Brodart. Inscribed to Jackie and signed by MacRae on the title page.