Inamorata

Author's first mystery set in Philadelphila. Inspired by a real-life event

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It is 1920s Philadelphia, a time when the feverish popular obsession with the paranormal is confronted by the inevitable ascendance of the scientific method. With everyone from Houdini to Arthur Conan Doyle weighing in on the existence of parapsychological phenomena, the media is as fixated on the sensational debate as scientists and would-be psychics. Indeed, in 1922, "Scientific American" offers five thousand dollars for evidence of aconclusive psychic manifestations.a

Inspired by this real-life event, "Inamorata" follows Martin Finch, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate student and member of "Scientific American"as investigative committee, on the case of a lifetimeaan attempt to determine whether Mina Crawley, a beautiful Philadelphia socialite, is able to contact the spirit realm. In the tiny upstairs room of the Crawleysa elegant Rittenhouse Square townhouse, Finch is prepared to debunk a fraud. But instead the man of science breaks the cardinal rule of psychic investigation: Never fall in love with the medium...

Product Info

ISBN: 0670032794

ISBN-13: 9780670032792

Publisher: Viking

Year: 2004

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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