Ji Lin’s search for the finger’s owner and Ren’s search for the digit itself eventually draw the two together and in the process ensnare everyone from Ji Lin’s taciturn stepbrother to Ren’s new master and his other household servants. By the next day, the salesman is dead-and his won’t be the last mysterious death to plague the area.
In another town, Ji Lin has given up dreams of university study to sew dresses during the day and work a second job in a dance hall one evening, she is approached by a salesman who presses something into her hand during a dance: a severed finger in a glass specimen tube. Before he takes his last breath, MacFarlane gives Ren a mission: Find the doctor’s missing finger, amputated years ago and now in the possession of a friend, and bury it in his grave before the 49 days of the soul have elapsed. It is May 1931, and 11-year-old Ren’s master, Dr. A young houseboy and a dressmaker’s apprentice get drawn into a mystery in 1930s Malaya.
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