Give Up The Ghost: A Haunted Home Renovation Mystery - Plot & Excerpts
A lot of it concerned the minutiae of everyday life, the sort of thing that might seem tedious and expected at the time—the weather, favorite recipes, complaints about the difficulties of finding reliable servants—but the letters were a fascinating window into another time and way of life. Much like the sort of stuff I typically found behind walls in houses; everyday objects like newspapers with the ads for current movies playing or worker’s scrawl about where to splice wires. The personalities of the letter writers shone through: Mrs. Rutherford was high-strung and a bit of a snob, but loved her daughters fiercely. The elder daughter, Beth, was quiet and devoted to her studies, and expressed a wish to pursue a career as a nurse that her mother quickly squelched as “unsuitable for a girl of your station.” The younger daughter, Virginia, was a riot: high-spirited and outgoing, she must have been a handful. Every letter from Mrs. Rutherford to her daughters began with anxious inquiries into their health and home remedies to treat a cough or an ache.
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