InamorataInamorata
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Book, 2004
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Current format, Book, 2004, , Available . Offered in 0 more formatsIt is 1920s Philadelphia, a time when the feverish popular obsession with the paranormal is confronted by the inevitable ascendance of the scientific method. With everyone from Houdini to Arthur Conan Doyle weighing in on the existence of parapsychological phenomena, the media is as fixated on the sensational debate as scientists and would-be psychics. Indeed, in 1922, Scientific Americanoffers five thousand dollars for evidence of conclusive psychic manifestations.Inspired by this real-life event, Inamoratafollows Martin Finch, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate student and member of Scientific Americans investigative committee, on the case of a lifetimean attempt to determine whether Mina Crawley, a beautiful Philadelphia socialite, is able to contact the spirit realm. In the tiny upstairs room of the Crawleys elegant Rittenhouse Square townhouse, Finch is prepared to debunk a fraud. But instead the man of science breaks the cardinal rule of psychic investigation: Never fall in love with the medium...
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