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The Anatomy of Ghosts
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Cambridge, 1786. Bookseller John Holdsworth has lost his son, wife and business, and has written a rational attack on belief in ghosts. Lady Anne Oldershaw hires him to investigate her son Frank, a student at Jerusalem College who has been confined after claiming to see the spirit of a dead woman.
Holdsworth enters a closed academic world governed by privilege, debt and secret clubs. A student’s unexplained death and the college’s determination to avoid scandal force him to test his scepticism against manipulation, grief and the possibility that the supposed haunting conceals a deliberate crime.
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