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Also by Cordelia Frances Biddle:

The Conjurer, July 2014
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Deception's Daughter, August 2008
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The Conjurer, June 2008
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The Conjurer
Cordelia Frances Biddle

Open Road Media
July 2014
On Sale: June 17, 2014
Featuring: Martha Beale; Thomas Kelman
319 pages
ISBN: 0312352468
EAN: 9781480490642
Kindle: B00KI7WRSI
Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery | Historical

An heiress breaks free of social conventions and attempts to solve the mystery of her father’s disappearance in 1842 Philadelphia in Cordelia Frances Biddle’s first Martha Beale mystery When her father fails to appear for lunch at their country estate, Martha Beale knows something is wrong. The family’s faithful dogs discover Lemuel Beale’s hunting rifle by the river, but there is no sign of the millionaire financier. Refusing to believe he is dead, his daughter—and sole heir—begins a discreet investigation with the help of the mayor’s aide, Thomas Kelman. But Philadelphia in 1842 is a dangerous place for a female, especially a twenty-six-year-old single woman. Martha’s quest for answers takes her from the pinnacle of high society, which is abuzz about a visiting European conjurer who communicates with the dead, to the city’s tragic slums where a brutal killer is targeting young prostitutes—and through it all Martha will confront the most ruthless aspects of human nature. In a story deeply rooted in time and place and brimming with atmosphere and suspense, Cordelia Frances Biddle conjures a mesmerizing world of intrigue and hidden desires.

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