LOOM AND DOOM

Maggie is looking forward to the annual Somerset Harbor Arts and Music Festival that coming weekend. This year they have added a 10 Mile Antique Sale to the event. Each antique dealer registered for the sale along ten miles of the coast will sell items from their shop and will also have at least one item included in a Friday night auction to be held in Somerset Harbor with proceeds going to the Historical Society.

Maggie has agreed to chair this event, and when she prepares the brochures for the auction, she sees an 1840’s carpetbag much like her aunt’s satchel that she played with as a child. Maggie has such fond memories of the bag that she bids on it at the auction. Trouble is, another man furiously bids against her for the bag. She wins the auction, but not thirty minutes later, the male bidder is murdered in the parking lot. Maggie has to wonder if his death is a result of the carpetbag and that leads her to locate a secret in the bag, taking her back in history where she discovers century’s old crimes that put her very