Portrait of Ignatius Jones

BOSTON 1896. Renowned psychic Ignatius Jones commissions his portrait to be painted by one of the leading artists of his time. He promises his followers that he will communicate with them through his portrait after he passes to spirit. On the day that he is murdered in 1903, his portrait is stolen. It turns up more than 100 years later at a church rummage sale in picturesque Tudorsville, Vermont.Current-day psychic mediums are invited to see the long-lost portrait at the newly-established Ignatius Jones Center for Spiritualist Discovery. When Boston psychic Dr. Frances Gourmelon (Ghosts on the Red Line) arrives at the Center, she discovers that things there are very odd, and getting odder.Charles Philip Tucker, former con man and the Center's founder, claims that he's in touch with Ignatius Jones through the portrait. He says that he's channeling Ignatius Jones when he punishes a visitor to the Center for blasphemy and selects an eighteen-year-old girl to bear his children on Ignatius Jones' behalf.Frances decides to get involved.Portrait of Ignatius Jones is a mind-bending story of con artists, psychics, and the paranormal in peaceable Vermont.

Author: Peter David Shapiro
Publisher: Penlane Press
Published: 10/26/2014
Pages: 386
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780983924449

About the Author
Peter David Shapiro was born in Montreal, Canada, and now lives in the Boston area. He frequently rides Boston's Red Line subway trains where commuters see their Departed in GHOSTS ON THE RED LINE. He spent time in Hong Kong, where a story of intrigue and revenge unfolds in THE TRAIL OF MONEY, and also in Vermont, where a remarkable oil painting in displayed in PORTRAIT OF IGNATIUS JONES. Readers are invited to contact the author through www.peterdshapiro.com.

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