Tales of Men and Ghosts - Chapter 3
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Last published Thu, Dec 6, 2012
A wife who doesn’t know a lot about his husband’s business is faced with his sudden disappearance. The style that has made “The age of innocence” such an endurable classic is felt throughout her stories in this book, and even if you would have thought her the last author to write about ghosts, you will get a pleasant surprise with this one.
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