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Title: Bad, gothic wannabe novel...
Review: Joan Aiken's "Fortune Hunters" was written in the mid-1960s. It was one of her earlier novels, and it shows. It is a step back from the previous "Silence of Herondale". The book centers around a convalescent magazine editor who suddenly came into money as her father was dying. She meets a number of odd characters, such as the odd neighbor; her "friend"'s cousin, who is a world-famous artist with a dark secret; a New Zealander who is an archeologist; and a strange invalid "child". The heroine is taken under the artist's wing, and bad stuff starts to happen. Is someone out to get her? Secrets are revealed, some ridiculous, and we get to see a bad scene with a fight between the villain and the invalid wild child. Trust me, just skip this one.
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