The Anatomy of Ghosts
โ Scribed by Andrew Taylor
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2009;2010
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 455 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0141943971
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
1786, Jerusalem College Cambridge.The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumoured to be haunting Jerusalem since disturbed fellow-commoner, Frank Oldershaw, claims to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds.Desperate to salvage her son's reputation, Lady Anne Oldershaw employs John Holdsworth, author of The Anatomy of Ghosts -- a stinging account of why ghosts are mere delusion -- to investigate. But his arrival in Cambridge disrupts an uneasy status quo as he glimpses a world of privilege and abuse, where the sinister Holy Ghost Club governs life at Jerusalem more effectively than the Master, Dr Carbury, ever could.And when Holdsworth finds himself haunted -- not only by the ghost of his dead wife, Maria, but also Elinor, the very-much-alive Master's wife -- his fate is sealed. He must find Sylvia's murderer or the hauntings will continue. And not one of them will leave the claustrophobic confines of Jerusalem unchanged.
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