The Ghost and the Dead Mans Library, Cleo Coyle
The Ghost and the Dead Mans Library, Cleo Coyle
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The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library

Author: Cleo Coyle

Narrator: Caroline Shaffer, Traber Burns

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/18/2018

Synopsis

Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her ghostly companion must solve the case of a literary killer in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly.Pen has just received an extremely rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s complete works. Rumor has it a secret code, trapped within the books’ leather-bound pages, leads to buried treasure. Well, it looks like they got the buried part right—because, as Pen sells off the valuable volumes, everyone who buys … dies.Once these books go missing from their owners’ cold hands, Pen will need resident ghost and hard-boiled P.I. Jack Shepard to help crack the case. The police are skeptical that the deaths involved foul play—so it’s up to them to unravel these shocking endings …

About Cleo Coyle

Cleo Coyle grew up in a small town near Pittsburgh. After earning scholarships to study writing at Carnegie Mellon and American University, she began her career as a cub reporter for the New York Times. Now a New York Times bestselling author, Cleo lives and works in New York City, where she collaborates with her husband to pen the Coffeehouse Mysteries. Together Cleo and her husband also write the Haunted Bookshop Mysteries under the name Alice Kimberly.

About Caroline Shaffer

Caroline Shaffer is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. A former company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for nineteen years, she received an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater.

About Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on February 22, 2011

I can't really put my finger on what bothers me about this series. I did just read the first three books all in a row in a weekend, so it may just be overdose. The first one was best, but they all get three stars thanks to my rating system and the good old vague three stars. Maybe they go slightly d......more

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg). on October 18, 2014

This series fulfills the perspective of a forty year-old in a ghost environment and needs to continue! The ethereal is abundant, even if not spooky or unexpected. Jack is original; teaching detective instincts through dreams of solved, 1940s cases. They are informative to me, never mind Penelope and......more

Goodreads review by Maria Falegiardo on November 07, 2021

I absolutely love these books! I’m so glad I just happened to stumble upon the first one. After that, I was hooked! This book, was so far my favorite. Penelope finds herself yet again in the thralls of another mystery. After an old friend of sweet aunt Sadies gifts her some rare Edgar Allan Poe edit......more

Goodreads review by Drebbles on March 24, 2010

An old friend of bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure's Aunt Sadie gives her a rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe's complete works. Shortly after giving Sadie the collection, Peter Chelsey is found dead. The police say it was an accident. Pen has her doubts, but doesn't want to get involved in y......more

Goodreads review by Dee on November 22, 2010

What a fun read and the lingo used for the ghost, road weary PI Jack Shephard, is always fun to read and hear inside your own head. His words are always in italics, but they're also in Pen's head, but she often forgets that no one else can hear hima ultimately embarrassing herself to try to cover up......more

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