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Alice-for-short

Alice-for-short

Romance Mystery Ghost Stories

William Frend De Morgan

Authors: William Frend De Morgan
Print type: BOOK

Description:

"A beautiful woman in 18th century clothes and a man with a sword repeatedly re-enact a murder haunt in an old house in Soho. The arrival of little orphan Alice Kavanagh eventually leads to the discovery of the woman's bones buried in the basement as well as a surprising revelation about the child's ancestry." - - Description by Peter Haining, in "A Century of Ghost Novels 1900 - 200" (Appendix to his book, The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories)