Vera, the Medium

Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Albert Bierstadt, John William Waterhouse and George Inness. Vera is a fraudulent medium, and knows it — and then, at a séance staged to swindle a dying old millionaire out of his fortune, she says something she could not have known. Davis was the most famous reporter of his age and the model for the Gibson Man; he wrote this in 1908 out of the ...