All's Well That Ends (32 page)

“I know, and I’m giving you this, and suggesting that you put it up for auction. Fund your new life. Don’t worry about money for a while.”

“A long while,” Sam said.

“Use it for good—or go crazy and blow it. Consider it your fee—a gift of thanks—for finding out what happened to Phoebe.”

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I shook my head. “I barely did. I really can’t!”

“You have to! Giving it to you makes me feel like Queen Isa-bella, sending you off on your great adventure. Find the new world, you two. Go!”

And so we did. The auction is next month and the painting is being treated as if it were royalty. As if, in fact, it were a king’s treasure, which, apparently, it was.

Phoebe would be so proud.

“Happy New Year,” Mackenzie said again.

It was a pretty sure thing.

About the Author

GILLIAN ROBERTS won the Anthony Award for Best

First Mystery for
Caught Dead in Philadelphia.
She is also the author of
Philly Stakes, I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia,
With Friends Like These . . . , How I Spent My Summer
Vacation, In the Dead of Summer, The Mummers’ Curse,
The Bluest Blood, Adam and Evil, Helen Hath No Fury,
Claire and Present Danger,
and
Till the End of Tom.
Formerly an English teacher in Philadelphia, Gillian Roberts now lives in California. Her website addr
ess is www.

GillianRoberts.com
—and she enjoys receiving fan e-mail

at [email protected]
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About the Type

This book was set in Garamond, a typeface originally designed by the Parisian typecutter Claude Garamond (1480–1561). Garamond’s distinguished romans and italics first appeared in
Opera Ciceronis
in 1543– 44. The Garamond types are clear, open, and elegant.