In 1929, Kate Jackson was found critically injured outside her bungalow in Mumbles. As police began investigating the mysterious attack, they discovered that the woman known at one point as Madame X had spent much of her life in a tangled web of aliases, secret relationships, unexplained wealth and conflicting accounts of her past…
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Up Above by Chelsea McGough
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The Diary by CJ0
Confessions by Cody Martin
Final Moments by Cody Martin
Realm Of Men by Cody Martin
Red Sand by Cody Martin
Storms Coming by Cody Martin
Twilight Mist by Druid Falls
Virtue by Featherland
A Presaging by Hill
Hearing Voices by James Wolf Burkholder
Confession by Lone Canyon
Quiet Sight by Lone Canyon
A Silent Request by Lost Ghosts
Sacred Descent by Lost Ghosts
Unworld by Lost Ghosts
Memories Of Future Events by Hill
The Way Back by Moments
To All Things by Moments
My Unbelief by Hill
Devil’s Doorstep by Wastelander
Dark Places by Wicked Cinema
Skeptic by Wicked Cinema
Vanished by Wicked Cinema
Mystic Manor by Cody Martin
Descent by Chelsea McGough
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ONLINE
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/162186635/person/152115147567/facts
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BOOKS
The Murder of Madame X: The Limeslade Mystery 1929 by Mark John Maguire