Fire Engine Dead — Sheila Connolly

Nell Pratt, president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society in Philadelphia, has to spark her intuition to find an arsonist/ murderer whose identity is veiled in smoke...

A series of warehouse fires has police scrambling for an arsonist, especially when valuable pieces in storage from the Fireman's Museum go up in flames, and a guard is killed in the blaze. But it's a picture in the paper of the museum's centerpiece -- an 1825 horse-drawn hand-pump fire engine -- that catches Nell Pratt's attention. Though charred and twisted, the vehicle clearly does not match her records of the original. Yet no one at the museum is talking about it. Did someone pull a fast one? And if so, which came first: theft, arson -- or murder?

As things heat up for Nell, FBI agent and prospective boyfriend Jani Morrison taps her insider knowledge of museum administrators find the truth behind the smoke screen...