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During the afternoon of May 18, 1926, and auburn-haired woman whose name was virtually an American household word went for a swim in the Pacific. She was not seen to come out of the water. Thousands of Californians who had thronged to hear the dynamic Aimee Semple McPherson preach at her floodlit Angelos Temple were stunned at the news of her disappearance. Two people died in the attempt to find her body. Services were held for her at the Temple and a memorial fund was collected.
Meanwhile, however, letters had begun to come in, demanding $500,000 ransom for the return of Sister Aimee. And five weeks after the vanished, Aimee turned up in a Mexican border town with a circumstantial story of having been kidnapped and then imprisoned in a desert shack, and of having escaped on foot across miles of sandy wastes.
The missing shepherd was welcomed back to life with great rejoicing by the Temple flock. But certain skepticsâamong them the Los Angeles district attorneyâhad doubts about her story. Why was no shack to be found that would fit her description? Why was she neither sunburned nor thirsty when she returned? And who was the mysterious "Miss X," so remarkably like the evangelist, who had occupied, with a "Mr. McIntyre," a rented honeymoon cottage at Carmel-by-the-Sea while Aimee was gone?
These questions led to a grand-jury investigation with sensational surprised of its own, and eventually brought the evangelist and certain others into court, where the disclosures made were as startlingâand as hilariousâas anything that had precededâŚ
"The whole story is one of the funniest episodes from the harebrained 1920sâŚ.It has been told in great and amusing detailâŚ."âGILBERT HIGHET
"It's more fun than a barrel ofâwell, Holy Rollers."âLESLIE HANSCOM, New York Telegram and Sun
"It is a story far too fantastic for fiction; nobody would believe it if it appeared between the covers of a novelâŚ"âFREDERIC BABCOCK, Chicago Tribune
Meanwhile, however, letters had begun to come in, demanding $500,000 ransom for the return of Sister Aimee. And five weeks after the vanished, Aimee turned up in a Mexican border town with a circumstantial story of having been kidnapped and then imprisoned in a desert shack, and of having escaped on foot across miles of sandy wastes.
The missing shepherd was welcomed back to life with great rejoicing by the Temple flock. But certain skepticsâamong them the Los Angeles district attorneyâhad doubts about her story. Why was no shack to be found that would fit her description? Why was she neither sunburned nor thirsty when she returned? And who was the mysterious "Miss X," so remarkably like the evangelist, who had occupied, with a "Mr. McIntyre," a rented honeymoon cottage at Carmel-by-the-Sea while Aimee was gone?
These questions led to a grand-jury investigation with sensational surprised of its own, and eventually brought the evangelist and certain others into court, where the disclosures made were as startlingâand as hilariousâas anything that had precededâŚ
"The whole story is one of the funniest episodes from the harebrained 1920sâŚ.It has been told in great and amusing detailâŚ."âGILBERT HIGHET
"It's more fun than a barrel ofâwell, Holy Rollers."âLESLIE HANSCOM, New York Telegram and Sun
"It is a story far too fantastic for fiction; nobody would believe it if it appeared between the covers of a novelâŚ"âFREDERIC BABCOCK, Chicago Tribune
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PRELUDE
- THEME I-THRENODY
- THEME II-RESURRECTION AND RIBALDRY
- THEME III-CONFOUNDINGS IN CARMEL
- THEME IV-THE LAWâS DISMAYS
- THEME V-THE ANSWER TO NOBODYâS PRAYER
- CODA
- CHRONOLOGY
- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER