{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Bearing her antique pewter teapot, Margaret Binton joins the crowd of hopefuls waiting to show their treasured junk to an expert at the annual free-appraisal day of a great New York auction house.  There she runs into her old friend Hannah, who has just brought in an antique coin for appraisal.  Minutes later, Hannah is stabbed to death - and the coin vanishes.\r\n\r\nThe police are apathetic, but Margaret is not about to let this outrage go unavenged, especially as she had a good look at the person she's sure killed Hannah.  Soon it's war - between the West Side's most fearless senior citizen and a coldly resourceful killer.  Never before has Margaret led her band of Broadway Robin Hoods into bolder battle - or so thoroughly unnerved her friends at the NYPD.\r\n\r\nAnd never before has her life depended on the flip of a coin..."}, "title": "One dollar death", "covers": [6807552, 7289585], "subject_places": ["New York (State)", "New York (N.Y.)", "New York"], "subjects": ["Margaret Binton (Fictitious character)", "Women detectives", "Fiction", "Large type books", "Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths", "New york (n.y.), fiction", "Binton, margaret (fictitious character), fiction"], "key": "/works/OL15844385W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL714194A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2011-07-09T13:07:33.247201"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-08-17T04:38:59.761806"}}