With their reputations and livelihoods at risk, Edward and Lucy set out to find the real killer, and in the process unearth a terrifying hive of secrets that reaches well beyond Mrs. Soon, Edward and Lucy become entwined in the murder of Lenora Grimes Pastor, the city's most highly regarded-and by all accounts, legitimate-medium, who dies mid-seance. Lucy Collins, a young widow who uses old-fashioned sleight of hand to prey on grieving families. Now a crime reporter for one of the city's largest newspapers, Edward is asked to use his knowledge of illusions and visual trickery to expose the influx of mediums that descended on Philadelphia in the wake of the war. Also constantly in his thoughts is another, more distant tragedy-the murder of his mother at the hands of his father, the famed magician Magellan Holmes.a crime that Edward witnessed when he was only ten. One of those men is Edward Clark, who is still tormented by what he saw during the war. Photographs of the dead adorn dim sitting rooms. Mothers in black continue to mourn their lost sons. The year is 1869, and the Civil War haunts the city of Philadelphia like a stubborn ghost. "Postbellum America makes for a haunting backdrop in this historical and supernatural tale of moonlit cemeteries, masked balls, cunning mediums, and terrifying secrets waiting to be unearthed by an intrepid crime reporter.
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