East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Stranger room, Frederick Ramsay

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Stranger room, Frederick Ramsay
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Stranger room
Oclc number
191808447
Responsibility statement
Frederick Ramsay
Summary
Elderly Jonathan Lydell III is proud of his family history and his house, which he is committed to restoring to its antebellum configuration, complete with a stranger room. Found in many family homes in the 1800s, an attached room with its own entrance, separately locked and kept for use by unknown travelers, it was intended to protect the family from unsavory guests. Nearly 150 years ago, an inexplicable murder took place in the locked stranger room of the Lydell house. The murderer was never caught
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