A barrister, a "priest," a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, a heinous spiritual medium...Spark's British bachelors come in every stripe. First found chatting in their London clubs, the cozy bachelors are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon the men are variously tormented--defrauded, robbed, blackmailed, pressed to attend horrid sances--and then plunged into the nastiest of lawsuits. At the center of that suit hovers pale, blank Patrick Seton, the medium. Meanwhile, horrors of every size plague the poor ...
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A barrister, a "priest," a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, a heinous spiritual medium...Spark's British bachelors come in every stripe. First found chatting in their London clubs, the cozy bachelors are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon the men are variously tormented--defrauded, robbed, blackmailed, pressed to attend horrid sances--and then plunged into the nastiest of lawsuits. At the center of that suit hovers pale, blank Patrick Seton, the medium. Meanwhile, horrors of every size plague the poor bachelors--from epileptic fits to forgeries, spiritualists foaming with protoplasm, and murder.
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