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THINGS HALF IN SHOW
By: Alan Finn
Gallery Books
January 2015
On Sale: December 30, 2014
Featuring: Edward Clark; Lenora Grimes Pastor; Lucy Collins
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. Edward Clark is a successful young crime reporter in comfortable circumstances with a lovely, well-connected fiancΓ©e. Then an assignment to write a series of exposΓ©s on the cityβs mediums places all that in jeopardy. In the Philadelphia of 1869, photographs of Civil War dead adorn dim sitting rooms, and grieving families attempt to contact their lost loved ones. Edwardβs investigation of the beautiful young medium Lucy Collins has unintended consequences, however. He uncovers her tricks, but realizes to his dismay that Lucy is more talented at blackmail than she is at a mediumβs sleights of hand. And since Edward has a hidden past, he reluctantly agrees that they should collaborate in exposing only her rivals. The mysterious murder of noted medium Lenora Grimes Pastor as Lucy and Edward attend her sΓ©ance results in a plum story for Edwardβand a great deal more. The pair want to clear themselves from suspicion, but a search spanning the houses of the wealthy to the underside of nineteenth-century Philadelphia unearths a buzzing beehive of past murder, current danger, and supernatural occurrences that cannot be explainedβ¦
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