The Abomination of Fensmere
On a Saturday exactly one month after her mother died in a car wreck, Penny heard a strange car slow down outside her house and stop. She put down her Nancy Drew novel—The Moonstone Castle Mystery, which her mother had bought her only an hour before her death and which Penny kept reading over and over as if somewhere in its pages was the solution to human mortality—and peeked through her second-story bedroom window to see who had arrived.
A gleaming black two-door Oldsmobile F-85 sedan crouched at the curb. Her stepfather took her car shopping the day after the funeral, but she’d refused to take a test ride with him, preferring to sit in a chair at the dealership and read her book. Still, she’d overheard the men’s auto talk and knew the model on sight.
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