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A great escape, with help from a Ouija board
In a historical thriller, former NYT obit writer unearths WWI tale that conjures up the rampant spiritualism of the day

Ivan Farkas
Margalit Fox
Like many journalists, Margalit Fox delights in the process of exhuming obscure stories and bringing them to life on the page. Fox, however, proved an unusually skilled practitioner during her 14-year run as an obituary writer for The New...