"First published in the US in 1993 by The Berkley Publishing Group ... First published in Great Britain in 2013 by C&R Crime, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd Reprinted in 2016 by Constable ... Copyright © Cheryl Arguile 1993"--Title page verso

"Despite a medium's eerie warning of her imminent demise, Abigail Hodges had no reason to suspect that her first séance was also to be her last . . . Inspector Witherspoon of Scotland Yard begins his faltering enquiries when Abigail is found dead in her grand London town house with gunshot wounds to her head and through her heart, but it is the inspector's housekeeper, Mrs Jeffries, who drives the investigation forward"--Page 4 of cover