Alice Kimberly, The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library
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Alice Kimberly, The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library
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The Ghost And The Dead Man's Library Alice
The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library
Alice Kimberly
Berkley, September 2006, $6.99
ISBN: 0425212653
Rhode Island book store owner Penelope Thornton-McClure obtained a rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe works. However, she learns that the seller died just after their deal was consummated. Not long afterward she sells her first volume only to learn the buyer died in a car crash soon after the sale.
When someone attacks Penelope, her store's ghost Jack Shepard, a private investigator before he was murdered at that location in 1949, takes exception. He believes that someone thinks that the tomes contain a code that will lead to a hidden treasure. Unable to stay out of it, Jack decides Penelope needs his help to uncover an apparent killer whose motive is ownership of the Poe books, but also cleverly disguises homicides as accidents, with the book store owner on the list for elimination.
Though a paranormal cozy, the storyline like the rest of the Ghost and series (see THE GHOST AND THE DEAD DEB and THE GHOST AND MRS. MCCLURE) feels more like a time travel tale because of Jack's vernacular is out of the classic 1940's pulp detective stories. The Poe mystery is cleverly devised so readers know the crimes (murder, assault, and robbery) and the motive, but will have no idea who the felon is. THE GHOST AND THE DEAD MAN'S LIBRARY is a terrific supernatural who's doing it, starring an offbeat combo of a mortal amateur sleuth and a spectral professional sleuth.
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