The Ghost and Mrs. McClure
Penelope Thornton-McClure manages a Rhode Island bookshop rumored to be haunted. When a bestselling author drops dead signing books, the first clue of foul play comes from the store's full-time ghost-a PI murdered on the very spot more than fifty years ago. Is he a figment of Pen's overactive...
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Penelope Thornton-McClure manages a Rhode Island bookshop rumored to be haunted. When a bestselling author drops dead signing books, the first clue of foul play comes from the store's full-time ghost-a PI murdered on the very spot more than fifty years ago. Is he a figment of Pen's overactive imagination? Or is the likable, fedora-wearing specter the only hope Pen has to solve the crime?
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101010440 (1101010444)
Publish date: February 3rd 2004
Publisher: Berkley Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Series: Haunted Bookshop Mystery (#1)
Penelope Thornton-McClure and her son leave New York to help her aunt save her bookstore in Rhode Island. What she does not know is that a ghost resides there who was murdered there in the 1940's, a gumshoe on a case. His murder was unsolved. Now another murder has occurred in the bookstore and h...
This was too slow for me. I liked when Jack and Pen were together trying to figure out the murderer. Otherwise, everything else felt flat.
Old school dectective story with twist. The dectective is long dead. He haunts a mystery bookstore and helps solve a terrible crime. His 1940's noir stlye adds to his character's gruffness and appeal.I enjoyed the mystery but not the noir style at least for the first half. I was never a fan of the o...
3.5 starsFor me, with cozy mystery, the characters are the most important thing. It's not the hard-boiled mystery or the gruesome of the murder, but the fun I get reading how the 'common' people playing detectives. This book has very likable characters; with a twist. The heroine is a book-store owne...
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