Tuesday Mooney Wore Black. Kate Racculia
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Название: Tuesday Mooney Wore Black
Автор: Kate Racculia
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Эзотерика
isbn: 9780008326968
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TUESDAY MOONEY WORE BLACK
Kate Racculia
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
1 London Bridge Street
London, SE1 9GF
First published in the UK by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copyright © Kate Racculia 2019
Cover design Micaela Alcaino @HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019
Cover photograph © Shutterstock.com
Kate Racculia asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780008326951
Ebook Edition © October 2019 ISBN: 9780008326968
Version: 2019-09-04
For all the people I’ve found
(and who have found me)
How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn.
Billionaires, all of us.
—URSULA K. LE GUIN
CONTENTS
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
2006
2012
1. The Dead Man’s Scream
2. The Obituary
3. The Woman in Black
4. The City’s Hideous Heart
5. Bloody Marys
6. Hunch Drunk
7. Dead People
8. This Means Something
9. Library Voices
10. Takeout and Delivery
11. Much Worse
12. Caught Up
13. Death and the Neighbor
14. Games People Play
15. Dead Man’s Party
16. Interview with the Widow
17. This House is Falling Apart
18. More Than a Feeling
19. Heart on a String
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Kate Racculia
About the Publisher
The Tillerman house was dead. Over a century old, massive and stone, it lay slumped on its corner lot, exposed by the naked December trees and shrubs growing wildly over its corpse. It was ugly, neglected, and, despite its size, withered; a black hole of a house. If the real estate agent were the kind of person who ascribed personalities to properties – he was not – he would have said it was the loneliest house he had ever sold.
His instincts told him this would be a strange, quick sale, with a giant commission. When he’d told the owner that, out of the blue, they had a buyer for the Tillerman house, some guy named “R. Usher,” the owner said, after a long pause, “Don’t sell it for a penny less than listed.” But the agent was anxious to get this over with. He had been inside the Tillerman house once before, and he hadn’t forgotten how it felt.
A figure appeared on the sidewalk, rounding the corner up the street. The agent shielded his eyes against the white winter sun to get a better look. A man. Wearing a long black coat and a giant black hat, broad and furry, something a Cossack might wear against the Siberian winter. The real estate agent smiled to himself. Yes. This was exactly the buyer you wanted when you were trying to sell a haunted house.
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