This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Wallace, Barbara Brooks, 1922-

Peppermints in the parlor / Barbara Brooks Wallace.

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Summary-Sent to San Francisco to live with her beloved aunt and uncle, newly orphaned Emily expectantly enters their once-happy mansion only to find unimaginable horrors.

ISBN 0-689-30790-X (hc.)

[1. Orphans—Fiction. 2. Old age—Fiction. 3. Horror stories.]

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PZ7.W154Pe 1993

[Fic]—dc20 92-33031

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ISBN: 978-1-4424-5083-7 (ebook)