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Overview

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?

 

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780425194614
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/3/2004
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 128,421
  • Series: Haunted Bookshop Series , #1
  • Product dimensions: 4.38 (w) x 6.86 (h) x 0.74 (d)

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  • Posted November 10, 2008

    A cozy and a hardboiled combined!

    This is a cozy mystery with some added zip, a hardboiled character. This is a haunted bookshop in which the ghost was a hardboiled private detective. Lots of fun and originality. The combination is great and adds interest.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 6, 2004

    An author chokes to death while speaking. Is it murder?

    This was a fabulous first mystery. I read it in one day! I can¿t wait for another in this series! Penelope Thornton-McClure has returned to Quindicott, Rhode Island, to become co-owner of Buy the Book bookstore with her Aunt Sadie. Penelope brought her seven year old son Spencer with her. Penelope¿s husband Calvin recently killed himself. To help increase business, Penelope sets up an author appearance by Timothy Brennan, renowned author of the Detective Jack Shield story. Unfortunately Timothy chokes during his talk and dies. The next morning when Penelope wakes with a hangover, she figures his death will be the end of Buy the Book. Boy was she wrong. Apparently they sold every copy of his new book and all of his previous books as well. The next day more copies arrive. She doesn¿t know how they will sell them until they open and are mobbed once again. Then the State Police determine he was killed and arrest Brennan¿s daughter, Diedre. She and her husband Kenneth had arrived with Brennan and Shelby Cabot from the publisher¿s the night of Brennan¿s talk. About 50 years ago P.I. Jack Shepard had been shot in a bookstore in this same location. Apparently Brennan¿s Jack Shield character was built off of Jack Shepard. Penelope starts conversing with Jack Shepard in her head. Most of the time she is trying to stop hearing him, but he is very persistent. I like the interaction of Penelope and Jack, even though he¿s a ghost. This is such a well-written cozy. She has created likeable characters, including a ghost, but it isn¿t scary in the least. Matter of fact, I found it funny! The interaction between the other characters is well written as well. I also like the setting of a small Rhode Island town. The bookstore setting gives it charm. She has a real winner! I highly recommend this! You won¿t want to put it down.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 6, 2009

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    True to the series - that is, very good.

    If you love this series for the fun it provides, then you will love this one too. If you like cozies in general, then you will like this series. As always, there are at least two mysteries to be solved, but no goriness.

    For the books I recommend, I also recommend the whole series.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 8, 2009

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    The ghost and Mrs. McClure

    I found this book very good. it is a different kind of mystery. It is about Penelope Thornton-McClure and the ghost of jack Sheppard. Jack Sheppard helps penelope solve a murder in the book store she co-owns with her aunt sadie. The plot keeps you clue to the book until the very end. I really enjoyed it and would recommended it.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 10, 2009

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    Very Enjoyable Book

    If you like the movie The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, I believe that you will like this book. It is interesting how the author intermixes the current and past to tell 2 stories. I read all 5 books in this series in 3 days. Light, quick read and very entertaining.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 26, 2009

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    little bit of pulp, little bit of now

    I have always had a liked Perry Mason and The Shadow when I was growing up, I especially loved the episodes of Star Trek which had Jean Luc playing the character of Dixon Hill, the hard-boiled detective. When I got older, my obsession grew with mysteries and pulp novels. This book has both of these elements, a modern day mystery, but with the dialogue and ambiance of the old pulp novels. I highly recommend reading this book, you will love the main characters: Penelope McClure and Jack Shepard. I am looking forward to the other titles in the series, I cannot wait for the characters to grow.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 23, 2009

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    Interesting take on a mystery

    The cover of this book caught my attention. Once I started reading the book that too caught my attention. I have to admit the first two chapters were hard to get through, it was a lot of "babbling". Once I finally made my way through those chapters I really did enjoy the book. Then I did not want it to end. So now I am on my way back to the bookstore to pick up the remaining series. Overall, I think this is a nice book to read on those rainy days.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 24, 2009

    I Also Recommend:

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    The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

    The book was very good. I love suspense, romance, and humor which this story was all about.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted November 2, 2008

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    Cute!

    This is just a cute little book for booklovers. I pick up the series as a new one come out (3 now, maybe 4?). I collect fiction about books or book environments and this one is a treasure. The later books seem to be getting farther from the bookstore and more into Jack the ghost, but they are all fun.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 18, 2012

    Good Read

    Fun cozy

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  • Posted October 27, 2011

    Funny and captivating

    This is a great start to a great series. A great detective team that will make you want to read more and more. I've read all 5 titles in the series and can't wait for the next one.

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  • Posted July 11, 2011

    EXCELLENT READ

    A great story with ghost, Jack Shepard, an old school detective and living/widowed bookstore owner Penelope Thorton-McClure along with many other interesting small town characters. Great word visuals and Extraordinary vocabulary make this book a wonderful story.

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  • Posted April 12, 2011

    Fun, Smart, and Full of Character!

    What starts out as predictable and corny, quickly moves to a brush with times past when detectives hung to the sides of fog feathered alleys, I found myself drawn in as Jack, the ghost with a past, coaches Penelope through the dark stacks of ghostwriters. Looking forward to the next installment,

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  • Posted March 11, 2011

    Not just a ghost story...

    I loved the combination of old school detective jargon along with modern day life. Lots of fun. The method of communication between the ghost and Mrs. McClure is clever and not typical in my experience.

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