Capturing the Dead

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Leland Curtis is a successful post-Civil War photographer known for his ability to make the dead seem almost alive in his memorial photographs. Grieving families of the day sought last images of their loved ones and frequently called upon him to honor their dead in daguerreotypes called. The eerie photographs were called memento mori. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A fashionable New York City couple call upon Mr. Curtis to memorialize their recently deceased six-year-old child Ernestine Tower. During the process both he and his apprentice Homer Bates are horrified to observe that the little girl is clearly sending them a message as well as one to her father. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This remarkable novel explores the Victorian world of a growing New York City the beginnings of photography criminal investigation and supernatural events.</span></p>