**In rural Maine, a stop on the Underground Railroad is menaced by a supernatural force in this terrifying novel of preβCivil War horror.** Davis Bentwood has nearly finished medical school when he meets an abolitionist dwarf walking across Harvard Yard. Jeb Coffin is a nonpracticing doctor, a de
Coffin Corner
β Scribed by Bagby, George; Stein, Aaron Marc
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Year
- 1949
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Series
- Inspector Schmidt 16
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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Even case-hardened Inspector Schmidt had to admit that he had been presented with a curious corpse. βOne hundred thirty pounds of athlete with no sugar in its blood, cotton up its nose, silk in its mouth, phoney candy in its pocket and a womanβs bath powder on its pants.β Before Schmitty could catch up with the killer there was a second corpse, and the Inspector braced himself for one of the most peculiar investigations in his long career.
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