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The weaver and the factory maid / Deborah Grabien.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.R1145 W43 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grabien, Deborah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk musicians--Fiction.
- Folk musicians.
- Ballads.
- Historic buildings.
- Padstow (England)--Fiction.
- Padstow (England).
- Historic buildings--Fiction.
- Murder victims--Fiction.
- Murder victims.
- Haunted houses--Fiction.
- Haunted houses.
- Ballads--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 182 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- Haunted by the ghosts of characters memorialized in their songs, a pair of lovers must uncover the truth behind the ghosts' deaths. When Ringan Laine, British folk musician, becomes the owner of a restored eighteenth-century cottage, he discovers right away that the cottage and the ancient barn on Ringan's property are haunted. Ringan and his longtime lover Penny, researching the identity of their unwanted tenants, learn that they were a young couple, victims of a famous double murder in the year 1817 - their story the subject of a song that is a staple in Ringan's repertoire. And they must stage a full-scale musical exorcism to lay the ghostly couple to rest. "The Weaver and the Factory Maid is only the first in what promises to be an exciting new mystery series features the ghosts of characters in folk ballads.
- ISBN:
- 0312314221
- OCLC:
- 52182588
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