Description

In a world where rumor travels faster than truth, a series of unsettling “phantoms” begins to surface—figures and fortunes that seem to haunt the nation’s most hallowed places. As public fascination turns into pressure and suspicion, the story follows characters drawn into a tangled investigation of what’s real, what’s manufactured, and what people desperately want to believe. Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s sharp, suspense-driven style blends gothic atmosphere with social observation, probing how media narratives and private motives can manufacture crises out of thin air. At its heart, this is a tale of deception and desire, where the pursuit of money and meaning collides with the haunting power of perception.

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paperback edition cover

paperback

IndyPublish.com

Published Jul 31, 2004

476 pages

ISBN: 9781414289731

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First Published

1879

Language

eng

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