One dollar death

the long version

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. The 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. And never before has her life depended on the flip of a coin...