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The Dead Hand

✍ Scribed by Kahn, Michael A


Book ID
109094835
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press, Inc.
Year
2016
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
117 KB
Series
Rachel Gold 10
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


"Dead hand" is the English translation of the Latin term "mortmain," which the law dictionary defines as "the influence of the past regarded as controlling the present." For Rachel Gold, a more accurate term would be "zombies." In particular, the wealthy zombies who seek to control the livingοΏ½and especially their familiesοΏ½from the grave through legal documents prepared before they died.In The Dead Hand, Rachel represents two womenοΏ½one a widow, one a divorceeοΏ½in a pair of nasty zombie lawsuits, the outcome of each of which hinges upon a clause in a dead man's document...


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