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The Family Vault

by Charlotte MacLeod · 1979

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Sarah Kelling calls in art historian Max Bittersohn when the family finds the skeleton of a burlesque queen who vanished over thirty years ago in their Beacon Hill family vault, opened for great-uncle Frederick. The complex murder plot stretches into the past of Boston andmarks Sarah as another victim.

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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 368 pages

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