A sinister and chilling ghost story from the author of THE FETCH OF MARDY WATT and CALYPSO DREAMING. When Ossian reluctantly returns to Lychfont House -- a country house with pretensions to match -- with his artist father, he finds things bizarrely familiar and yet oddly different. Reacquainting hi
Death of a Ghost
โ Scribed by Allingham, Margery
- Book ID
- 108868204
- Publisher
- Random House
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 468 KB
- Series
- Albert Campion 6
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
John Lafcadio's ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling as his own death. A set of twelve sealed paintings is the bequest he leaves to his widow โ together with the instruction that she unveil one canvas each year before a carefully selected audience.
Albert Campion is among the cast of gadabouts, muses and socialites gathered for the latest ceremony โ but art is the last thing on the sleuth's mind when a brutal stabbing occurs....
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