Haunted Bookshop

Christopher Morley

ISBN 10: 0380626950 / ISBN 13: 9780380626953

Published by Avon Books (P) March 1983, 1983

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Seller Inventory # 123091

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Haunted Bookshop
• Publisher: Avon Books (P) March 1983
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0380626950
• ISBN 13: 9780380626953
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mysteries

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Synopsis

Helen McGill and Roger Mifflin, married and running the Haunted Bookshop in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn, find their serenity disturbed by romance, theft, espionage, and mysterious intrigue

From the Publisher

“When you sell a man a book,” says Roger Mifflin, protagonist of these classic bookselling novels, “you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sell him a whole new life.” The new life the itinerant bookman delivers to Helen McGill, the narrator of Parnassus on Wheels, provides the romantic comedy that drives the novel. Published in 1917, Morley’s Ūrst love letter to the trafŪc in books remains a transporting entertainment. Its sequel, The Haunted Bookshop, Ūnds Mifflin and McGill, now married, ensconced in Brooklyn. The novel’s rollicking plot provides ample doses of diversion, while allowing more room for Mifflin (and Morley) to expound on the intricacy of the bookseller’s art. Introduction by James Mustich, Jr.