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New Murders for Old by Carter Dickson
A wealthy hotel magnate returns from a global voyage to find his own obituary in the newspaper, only to realize he is walking into a meticulously staged supernatural murder plot designed to replace him with his own double.
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Church of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead
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