Details

Subject(s)

• Seances—Fiction [Browse]
• Photography—History—Fiction [Browse]
• London (England)—History—1800-1950—Fiction [Browse]

Related name

• Paterson, Anna [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Detective and mystery fiction [Browse]

Summary note

"A photographer dies, leaving all his belongings, among them many notes and photographs, to his niece. Intrigued by her inheritance, Johanna Hall decides to investigate the secrets of her uncle's early life. Travelling to London, where her uncle had lived and trained in his youth, she uncovers a macabre history laced with scandal." "In 1905, Madame Blavatsky holds Theosophist seances in London. Among the attendees is churchman Charles Leadbeater. Johanna discovers that Leadbetter used his position to take in young children, to capture their souls on film as they departed their bodies. Photographs of the seances are taken by Herbert Burrows, to whom Johanna's uncle was apprenticed at the time. The story is told both by Johanna in the course of her present-day research and then by her uncle, who, as a young man, gives his version of the story."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN

• 1843430223 ((pbk.))
• 9781843430223 ((pbk.))

OCLC

52736228

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