title: Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
author:  Rosalyn Schanzer 
description: Rosalyn Schanzer is the award-winning author andillustrator of 16 books for young people, including <i>How We Crossed the West</i> which garnered starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal, and <i>George versus George: The American Revolution as Seen From Both Sides</i>, an ALA Notable Book, SLJ Book of the Year, NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, and Orbis Pictus Recommended book. She was recently awarded the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for her work on <i>Witches</i>. Roz lives in Virginia with her husband, Steve, in a house surrounded by birds.
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  # An Old Witches Tale
  
  
  ### A Whitewood Witches Murder Mystery
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Agnes Lester Brown
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### Blue Lantern Publishing
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Edited by Clio Editing
  
  
  Cover and production by Carl Duncan
  
  
  Copyright © 2018 by Agnes Lester Brown
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
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  Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses,
  places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s
  imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons,
  living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
  
  
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  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](part0003.html#2RHM0-473e4c5d461