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As the Screw Turns

Shelley Costa

First published April 2010
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

<br>• Peter Quint has a problem, so he goes to Charlotte Jessup, as both work for the Ectopolis Enqiriries in the afterlife, for advice. Master Miles and Miss Flora are seeing ghosts, Peter and Charlotte's to be exact. Investigating, they find Miles dead of suspicious circumstances. Is the lovestruck Mistress Eloise Dalrymple responsible? If so, then who was responsible for Charlotte's mysterious death? All characters are from Henry James' <i>The Turn of the Screw</i> –MLB

Notes

• Detective retelling of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw from the ghost's point of view.

Publications (1)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
April 2010 Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, April 2010 Dell Magazines MAGAZINE 74