Ruth Chambers Publishing

With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early ninete

'Dripping with atmosphere with a corkscrew plot, Laura Purcell just gets better and better' STACEY HALLS'It truly kept me guessing to the very last page' SONIA VELTONWicked deeds require the cover of darkness... A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers - in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell. Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat.Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another... Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl

The first African-American aircraft carrier commander, Rear Admiral Lawrence Cleveland Chambers (1920– ) played a prominent role as captain of the USS Midway during the Vietnam War. During the evacuat

The history of post-war writing in French has tended to separate African literature from French metropolitan literary production. The same separation resonates in today's global French literary market