The Two-Timing Corpse: The Number Mysteries - Couverture souple

Bunker, Dusty

 
9780595216215: The Two-Timing Corpse: The Number Mysteries
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595216218 ISBN 13 : 9780595216215
Editeur : iUniverse, 2002

Synopsis

When fifty-year-old millionaire Henry Vandalay is found stabbed to death on the cement floor of his shop, and the Tarot Death card is found in the ancient Keltic layout spread neatly beside his cold body, Henry's beautiful young wife, Katherine, hires numerologist, Samantha Blackwell, to find her husband's killer. Katherine invites Sam to the Vandalay mansion for the weekend.During an elegant dinner at the mansion, Sam is visited by a vision of a floating dead man who supplicates her with decomposing arms. The tension mounts when she is awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in the hallway. She peers out of her bedroom doorway to find an apparition moving down the grand staircase.The discovery of a hidden pagan altar lures Sam even deeper into the convoluted relationships in the drafty house, and into the business dealings of Henry Vandalay.The next day, as a small circle of people gather for the reading of the will, terrible secrets are revealed. Is Sam getting too close to the killer? Will she be next? Only her steely resolve propels her to unravel the mystery hidden in the Tarot layout, and reveal the identity of the true killer.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

When fifty-year-old millionaire Henry Vandalay is found stabbed to death on the cement floor of his shop, and the Tarot Death card is found in the ancient Keltic layout spread neatly beside his cold body, Henry's beautiful young wife, Katherine, hires numerologist, Samantha Blackwell, to find her husband's killer. Katherine invites Sam to the Vandalay mansion for the weekend.During an elegant dinner at the mansion, Sam is visited by a vision of a floating dead man who supplicates her with decomposing arms. The tension mounts when she is awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in the hallway. She peers out of her bedroom doorway to find an apparition moving down the grand staircase.The discovery of a hidden pagan altar lures Sam even deeper into the convoluted relationships in the drafty house, and into the business dealings of Henry Vandalay.The next day, as a small circle of people gather for the reading of the will, terrible secrets are revealed. Is Sam getting too close to the killer? Will she be next? Only her steely resolve propels her to unravel the mystery hidden in the Tarot layout, and reveal the identity of the true killer.

Biographie de l'auteur

dusty bunker, internationally recognized author of books on the metaphysical and symbolic nature of numbers and dreams, brings her knowledge of the arcane into The Number Mystery series. Some of her credits include publication in the Time-Life Book Series: Mysteries of the Unknown, and columns for Mademoiselle Magazine.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595216218
ISBN 13 
9780595216215
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
246
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Personne responsable
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