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She reads palms and communes with the dead—but the Oracle of Maddox Street is no mere charlatan. A palmist and spiritualist by profession, she moves through Edwardian London’s fashionable drawing rooms with her barrister brother at her side, unraveling mysteries where the uncanny brushes against cold reason. Where other investigators dismiss the supernatural, she embraces it as both her method and her gift.

In four complete adventures—three classic tales from the pages of Pearson’s Magazine (1902) by L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace, plus a new story written in the same spirit—the Oracle confronts dead hands that point to murder, spirit messages concealing dark secrets, and a society engagement shadowed by the occult. Together they constitute the entire known canon of one of Edwardian fiction’s most singular heroines: the remarkable Diana Marburg, Occult Detective.