The Ghost in the Machine: Being the First Volume of the Memoirs of Madame Seraphina Fox, Spiritualist, Describing Her Worldly and Otherworldly Experie - Paperback

by Joy Reed (Author)

It's not easy being a True Oracle. Just ask Madame Seraphina Fox. As a fraudulent medium (but first-class showman), Madame Fox has invented a new twist in the Spiritualism game. No old-fashioned table-turning for her. Instead, she communicates with the dead using her patented device, the Electrical Spiritograph. It's an original scheme-and a lucrative one. Fashionable society flocks to her Temple of Spiritualism. In an atmosphere that is half mysticism and half crackpot science, she amazes her clients with the accuracy of her spiritual communications. All signs point to good fortune for Madame Fox-until her machine unexpectedly brings to light the body of a bride-to-be who vanished mysteriously years ago. Before long, Madame Fox is forced to mediate between her not-very-spiritual sources, a dangerous murderer, and a Scotland Yard detective who is skeptical about the whole subject of spiritualism. *** The Ghost in the Machine is the first book of the Seraphina Fox Mystery Series. Set in 1880s London, it's a world where the mask of propriety can conceal the darkest of crimes, and a lady needs all her wits about her to distinguish a true friend from a deadly enemy.

Author Biography

Joy Reed is the author of 16 romance novels*, an award-winning master's thesis, and the Seraphina Fox mystery series. Her works have been published around the world and translated into four languages. She has dabbled in teaching and is a dilettante scientist, but chiefly devotes herself to her twin loves of history and literature. Ms. Reed lives in the Greater Little Rock area with her long-suffering husband and an undisclosed number of cats and tarantulas. You can read her musings about life and literature on her blog BookJoy: http: //bookjoy.livejournal.com/ *Her mother says 26.