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The Haunted Bookshop

By: Christopher Morley
Narrated by: Victoria Bradley
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Publisher's summary

"The Haunted Bookshop" (1919) is not a work on the supernatural. Rather, the name refers to the ghosts of the past that haunt all libraries and bookstores: "the ghosts of all great literature."

Morley, through the character of Roger Mifflin, speaks about the knowledge and wisdom that one can gain from literature. The suspenseful novel is set in Brooklyn around the end of World War I. The narrative begins with a young advertising man, Aubrey Gilbert, stopping by a bookstore named "The Haunted Bookshop" in the hopes of finding a new client.

Gilbert meets the owner, Roger Mifflin. Gilbert does not sell anything, but is attracted by Mifflin and his conviction about the value books and booksellers have to the world. Additionally, Gilbert is thrilled by the fact that his firm's biggest client, Mr. Chapman, is a friend of Mifflin and has asked Mifflin to undertake the education of his daughter, Titania Chapman, by hiring her as an assistant.
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Good story, poor reading

This is a fun mystery, continuing the story of Roger Mifflin and his wife, booksellers who used to be in the road in Parnassus on Wheels. Now they are settled in Brooklyn in a cozy store, carrying on their preaching the gospel of good books. They find themselves in the middle of a mystery involving a book, a druggist, and an advertising man.

The sad thing about this Audible version is that the reader is incredibly dull. No inflection hardly. I ended up reading for myself because I couldn't take it any more.

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