Description

To vacationers, bay-windowed Victorian mansions are stylish, tranquil icons of old San Francisco, but the gingerbread has started a nasty fight, around the hill above Steiner Road. Formidable builders are pressing for repair and citizens are battling for their homes…until a questionable restorationist is located dead-on the task, awash in garish housepaint. Private eye Sharon McCone is known as in mere to find out another nasty feud, this time around between your builders and users of the town's effective new neighborhood. As workmen tear through sheets of sheetrock, plaster, and picture, McCone unearths another, older offense: a cache of stolen collectibles involves lighting; and an absent one-of-a-kind Tiffany lamp imprinted with the excellent account of the Cheshire Cat becomes McCone's most significant idea.