Poison in Jest: Being the Second Volume of the Memoirs of Madame Seraphina Fox, Spiritualist, Describing Her Worldly and Otherworldly

Madame Seraphina Fox, Victorian London's most popular (and fraudulent) medium has her hands full with a new adventure. When a wealthy client hires her to summon up the spirit of the Duke of Wellington, she soon realizes there's danger afoot-and not from Napoleon. The dinner planned to celebrate the Duke's victory serves up generous helpings of greed, treachery, and sudden death. Madame Fox really needs a strategic genius to sort out this mess. Especially when a ghost from her own past appears to threaten her livelihood. . ..