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From sea to shining sea, the invention known as the telegraph would tame the American frontier. But for psychic detective Ophelia Wylde, the wild west is about to get wilder
MESSAGES FROM BEYOND?
When telegraph keys across the country begin bursting into flamesand chattering ghostly nonsensethe terror and turmoil is enough to bring the railways, banks, and news industry to a standstill. Theres only one person they can turn to: Mrs. Ophelia Wylde, a young widow turned detective who has famously brought murderers to justiceby speaking to their victims on the other side. Are the recent telegraph mishaps a message from beyond? Ophelias not sure, but the fact that the keys last operator, Lightning Hapless Hopkins, has been poisoned is enough to raise her darkest suspicions. Its up to Ophelia to unravel the riddle of the ghostly wire tap, solve the murder of Hapless Hopkins, and expose the secret history of the telegraphs little-known co-inventorbefore her own life is on the line.