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02577aam a2200253 i 4500 001 A022D538CA3D11EEB6B0F94039ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240213010033 008 231212s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1941212743 020 $a 9781941212745 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Sletten, Deanna Lynn, $e author. 245 1 $a Mrs. Winchester's biographer / $c Deanna Lynn Sletten. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Deanna Lynn Sletten, $c [2023] 300 $a 306 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "1918 â Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune, has read and heard all the newspaper stories written about her. Snob. Crazy. Insane. Spiritualist. Ghosts. Séances. The list goes on and on. At the age of seventy-nine, sheâs lived an incredible life, and her wealth has allowed her to live as she pleased. Sarah loves projects, and now she has one last project she wishes to complete. Itâs time she compiled her life story so friends and family will know the truth once sheâs gone. But with her crippling arthritis, she needs someone to help her. She hopes the young woman her lawyer, Frank Lieb, has sent to the house will fit in with her staff and work well as her typist. Sarah knows she doesnât have many years left, and this is a project she is determined to finish. 1918 â Olivia Collins is a young single woman who has found herself in a precarious predicament. Through a mutual friend, lawyer Frank Lieb, sheâs been offered a chance to work with the infamous Sarah Winchester. Olivia is nervous about meeting the elderly woman she has heard stories about all her life. But she desperately needs this job. Without it, Olivia has no idea what her future will hold. Today â Morgan Connors is helping her mother go through her recently deceased grandmotherâs possessions when she comes upon an old manuscript. The title states it is Sarah Winchesterâs Autobiography. Morgan works as an acquisition editor at a publisher in San Francisco and knows that no such book has ever been published. When her mother explains that Morganâs great-great-grandmother, Olivia Collins, once worked for Mrs. Winchester, sheâs intrigued. Who was Olivia Collins, and why did she have a manuscript of Sarah Winchesterâs life story?"-back cover. 541 $d 20231212. 650 $a Heiresses $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Family $x History $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Cozy mystery fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l NWPC663 $d 20240213011137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A022D538CA3D11EEB6B0F94039ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search