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In April 1927, novelist Jeff Caldwell returns to New Orleans when his boyhood friend Dave Hobart becomes involved in a strange and murderous inheritance.
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Journalist and spy novelist Jim Blake takes an assignment for Harper's Weekly that puts him on a train to New Orleans, where congressional candidate James Claiborne Blake is being targeted by enemies who threaten to reveal that there is a glamorous Creole courtesan in his past. But in New Orleans, a sexual indiscretion is not enough to ruin a politician. That would require murder. When one of Clay's supporters is found murdered, Jim Blake sets out to clear the candidate's name. A dangerous mission in a city that comes alive at night, where rumor can be as deadly as poison.
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In 1869 London, Kit Farrell arrives to meet his old friend Nigel Seagrave, an African explorer who has recently returned to his wife, Muriel. Nigel is convinced that his wife, Muriel, has been replaced by a doppelgänger, and Kit is pursued by dangerous, unexplained events, including a missing woman (Patricia Denbigh) who he saw fleeing his hotel. Author Wilkie Collins steps into the role of detective to unravel the strange goings-on, which heavily feature themes of mistaken identity and double-murders
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