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The Peculiar Funeral of Mortimer E. Ridgewell

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Daniel Hemker receives a mysterious letter in the mail one day; it's an invitation to a funeral of a wealthy, old man that he had only met once a couple of months before the man's death.   Daniel goes to the estate under the notion that there has been some mistake made.  Instead, he is met with the man's equally eccentric family, a particularly odd butler, and an eerie suspicion that he has been summoned to the home for a very specific, and deadly reason.

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