Francis Granthope reads palms for the rich of San Francisco, aided by his clever assistant Fancy Gray and a network of spies who feed him his clients’ secrets. When he falls for the earnest Clytie Payson, whose father bars the door against him, his trade and his conscience pull in opposite directions, among studios, cafés and séance rooms of a bohemian city.
Dedicated to the city that was, it is an affectionate portrait of San Francisco just before 1906 by the author of the Purple Cow. Download the free EPUB.