While hosting a group of academics at Thorncroft House, Harriet and Matthew Rowsley find themselves confronted with bigger - and bloodier! - issues than unruly guests . . . The fifth instalment of the Harriet and Matthew Rowsley Victorian mystery series sets in England during the great Victorian era
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The Dead Hand
β 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
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β¦ 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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