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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro was born in Berkeley, California on September 15, 1942. She graduated from San Francisco State College in 1963 and worked as a demographic cartographer until becoming a full-time writer in 1970. She writes horror, science fiction, and fantasy novels including Time of the Fourth Horseman, To the High Redoubt, Spider Glass, show more Arcane Wisdome, and The Saint-Germain Cycle series. She has received several awards including a Life Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association in 2009 and a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention in 2014. In 1997, the Transylvanian Society of Dracula bestowed a literary knighthood on her. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Original title
Ogilvie, Tallant & Moon
Original publication date
1976
People/Characters
Charlie Moon; Miranda Trobridge
Epigraph
The Indian dead will rise to eat the grave meats
left for them when the white man's dead
rise to smell their flowers.

—INDIAN PROVERB
Dedication
Most affectionately dedicated
to my sister
Ann Christine Kokonmaa
First words
Everyone else had gone home when the phone rang.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)All kinds of magic.

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3575 .A7 .O34Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-

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