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S?ance in sepia

"Flynn Keirnan buys an unusual old photograph at an estate sale, which an antiques dealer tells her might be a 'spirit photograph.' She puts the photo up for auction and is flabbergasted when the bidding soars over a thousand dollars. She soon learns that the woman and two men shown in ghostly images in the picture were the subjects of a sensational murder trial in 1875 Chicago. A young architect was accused of killing his wife and his best friend in what the local press dubbed 'The Free Love Murders.' She also learns that the accused husband asked spiritualist and renowned proponent of Free Love Victoria Woodhull to contact the spirits of his wife and friend to find out how they really died. Were the deaths a double homicide, as the prosecution claims, a double suicide, as the distraught husband fears, or a murder-suicide? Who killed whom? Consulting trial transcripts, journals, and Victoria's notes from her jailhouse interview with the defendant, Flynn discovers the key to solving the Free Love murders lies in learning the provenance of the mysterious spirit photograph itself."--P. [2] of jacket.

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