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Synopsis
After buying a junk shop, shy and lonely Amelia Jones finds in a hurdygurdy a note signed by a woman named Hannah who claims that she is about to be murdered and sets out to trace its source
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About the Author
Dorothy Gilman (1923-2012) was the author of 14 Mrs. Pollifax novels, including The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, the series debut; Mrs. Pollifax Pursued; Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer; Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist; and Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled. She was also the author of many other novels, among them Thale's Folly.
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"A superb book."
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
When quiet, shy Amelia Jones reads a desperate message that has fallen out of a barrel organ in the antique shop she just bought, she can't forget the words, "They're going to kill me soon..." Armed only with the woman's first name and the note written years before, Amelia begins a journey into the past, a search that takes her from the protective cocoon she's wrapped herself in to a precarious world where nothing is the way it seems, where fear is second nature, and dark secrets just might uncover murder--her own....
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 038514959X
- ISBN 13 9780385149594
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages186
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