Back Bay
- ISBN-10
- 145557872X
- ISBN-13
- 9781455578726
- Category
- Back Bay (Boston, Mass.)
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-07-03
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Author
- William Martin
Description
When the Golden Eagle tea set given to George Washington mysteriously disappears in 1814, there is reason to suspect Horace Taylor Pratt, the founding father of a family cursed with a legacy of unaccountable deaths and outright murders that continues foreight generations.
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