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Things Half In Shadow
Alan Finn
Gallery Books
January 2015
On Sale: January 6, 2015
Featuring: Magellan Holmes; Lucy Collins
448 pages
ISBN: 1476761728
EAN: 9781476761725
Kindle: B00JYDKX38
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Mystery Historical
Postbellum America makes for a haunting backdrop in this
historical and supernatural tale of moonlit cemeteries,
masked balls, cunning mediums, and terrifying secrets
waiting to be unearthed by an intrepid crime reporter. The year is 1869, and the Civil War haunts the city of
Philadelphia like a stubborn ghost. Mothers in black
continue to mourn their lost sons. Photographs of the
dead
adorn dim sitting rooms. Maimed and broken men roam the
streets. One of those men is Edward Clark, who is still
tormented by what he saw during the war. Also constantly
in
his thoughts is another, more distant tragedy—the murder
of
his mother at the hands of his father, the famed magician
Magellan Holmes...a crime that Edward witnessed when he
was
only ten. Now a crime reporter for one of the city’s largest
newspapers, Edward is asked to use his knowledge of
illusions and visual trickery to expose the influx of
mediums that descended on Philadelphia in the wake of the
war. His first target is Mrs. Lucy Collins, a young widow
who uses old-fashioned sleight of hand to prey on
grieving
families. Soon, Edward and Lucy become entwined in the
murder of Lenora Grimes Pastor, the city’s most highly
regarded—and by all accounts, legitimate—medium, who dies
mid-séance. With their reputations and livelihoods at
risk,
Edward and Lucy set out to find the real killer, and in
the
process unearth a terrifying hive of secrets that reaches
well beyond Mrs. Pastor. Blending historical detail with flights of fancy, Things
Half in Shadow is a riveting thriller where Medium and
The
Sixth Sense meet The Alienist—and where nothing is quite
as
it seems…
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