Clairvoyant dreams, ghosts, murder, and intrigue abound in this short story collection! Dr. Stanchon might be a brilliant diagnostician, but the oddity of his cases more often involves the paranormal undercurrents of late nineteenth-century New York than curious illnesses. Whether he’s counseling his patients to break free of their compulsions, keeping family secrets, or tending to his haunted house and its ill-fated tenants, Dr. Stanchon always seems to be in the middle of something mere science just can’t explain!
Josephine Dodge Daskam, Mrs. Bacon (1876- 1961) was a prolific American author. She wrote many books among which are: Smith College Stories (1900), Sister's Vocation, and Other Girls' Stories (1900), Fables for the Fair (1901), Whom the Gods Destroyed (1902), The Madness of Philip.. (1902), Poems (1903), In the Valley of the Shadow (1903), Julia the Apostate (1903), Mrs. Dud's Sister (1903), A Philanthropist (1903), A Reversion to Type (1903), Middle Aged Love Stories (1903), The Courting of Lady Jane (1903), Her Fiance (1904), Memoirs of a Baby (1904), The Imp and the Angel (1907), Domestic Adventurers (1907), Idyll of All Fool's Day (1908), In the Border Country (1909), The Biography of a Boy (1910), Inheritance (1912), Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon (1913), Luck O' Lady Joan (1913), To-day's Daughter (1914), Open Market (1915), Twilight of the Gods (1915) and Our Hill (1918).
Josephine Dodge Daskam, Mrs. Bacon (1876- 1961) was a prolific American author. She wrote many books among which are: Smith College Stories (1900), Sister's Vocation, and Other Girls' Stories (1900), Fables for the Fair (1901), Whom the Gods Destroyed (1902), The Madness of Philip.. (1902), Poems (1903), In the Valley of the Shadow (1903), Julia the Apostate (1903), Mrs. Dud's Sister (1903), A Philanthropist (1903), A Reversion to Type (1903), Middle Aged Love Stories (1903), The Courting of Lady Jane (1903), Her Fiance (1904), Memoirs of a Baby (1904), The Imp and the Angel (1907), Domestic Adventurers (1907), Idyll of All Fool's Day (1908), In the Border Country (1909), The Biography of a Boy (1910), Inheritance (1912), Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon (1913), Luck O' Lady Joan (1913), To-day's Daughter (1914), Open Market (1915), Twilight of the Gods (1915) and Our Hill (1918).
Excerpt from the book: There they Met two Men playing Golf. "Bird!" exclaimed her Husband. Children Need the Country. The Rival wore Silver Brocade with Turquoise Chiffon. One Day she Went out to the Links with a Sensible Friend who wore a Sweater and Man-fashioned Shoes. "It is very Foolish, I know, but my Skin is so Absurdly Thin, and the Sun Blisters it so." The Sensible Friend came up just Behind, and Mopping her Face, she said, "You are too Ridiculous. About the Author Josephine Daskam Bacon (1876 - 1961) was an American writer of great versatility. She is chiefly known as a writer who made the point of having female protagonists. This historical work has been digitally restored using the latest technology, making it available in digital and printed form. The original is painstakingly manually restored, leaving fresh, easy-to-read literature in modern fonts whilst keeping the author's intent in place wherever possible. This also enables Kindle versions to use the technology available such as Text-to-Speech, as our books are not simply printed PDFs.
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