The Inn Keeper
(2009)An Unregistered Death
(The sixth book in the Grace Marsden Mystery series)
A novel by Luisa Buehler
A runaway slave and a society girl lay entombed in an Oak Park cellar.
Renovations turn gruesome when skeletal remains are uncovered in the basement of an old boardinghouse.
Forensics add a twist; the remains were entombed eighty years apart!
Separated by age, gender, and social status the mystery of their identifies and their deaths is overshadowed by the unlikelihood of their final resting place.
Grace is drawn into the bizarre discovery when early police reports cast suspicion on her friends. That crisis contained she hopes to curtail further involvement. And does, until she sees the specter of the runaway slave. He waits outside the building that has hidden his remains for eighty years. He looks to Grace for justice and compassion.
Could she deny him in death wheat he fought to gain in life?
Genre: Mystery
Renovations turn gruesome when skeletal remains are uncovered in the basement of an old boardinghouse.
Forensics add a twist; the remains were entombed eighty years apart!
Separated by age, gender, and social status the mystery of their identifies and their deaths is overshadowed by the unlikelihood of their final resting place.
Grace is drawn into the bizarre discovery when early police reports cast suspicion on her friends. That crisis contained she hopes to curtail further involvement. And does, until she sees the specter of the runaway slave. He waits outside the building that has hidden his remains for eighty years. He looks to Grace for justice and compassion.
Could she deny him in death wheat he fought to gain in life?
Genre: Mystery
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