Inamorata
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ISBN: 0670032794 / Publisher: Viking Adult, January 2004
Inspired by a five thousand dollar prize for concrete evidence of "conclusive psychic manifestations," Martin Finch attempts to discover whether Mina Crawley, a Philadelphia socialite, is able to contact the spirit realm.
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In 1922, Scientific American offered $5,000 for evidence of "psychic manifestations."Inspired by this real-life event, Inamorata follows Martin Finch, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate student and member of Scientific American's investigative committee, on the case of a lifetime - an examination of the powers of Philadelphia "society psychic" Mina Crawley. In the tiny upstairs room of Dr. and Mrs. Crawley's elegant Rittenhouse Square town home, Finch prepares to debunk a fraud. But instead the young man of science finds himself falling under the spell of the beguiling and beautiful Mrs. Crawley.As the investigation explodes across the national headlines and the committee succumbs to infighting, it's left to Finch - a young man in over his head - to confront the uncanny, and uncover a truth darker than any he could have expected.
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