Haunted Bookshop Mystery · Book 2
The Ghost and the Dead Deb
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 262
- ISBN-13
- 9780425199442
- Type
- novel

About this book
The second Haunted Bookshop Mystery book, The Ghost and the Dead Deb, runs 262 pages, continuing Penelope Thornton-McClure's partnership with the ghost of hard-boiled 1940s private eye Jack Shepard, whom only she can hear.
Its place in Haunted Bookshop Mystery
The Ghost and the Dead Deb is book 2 in the Haunted Bookshop Mystery series. It follows The Ghost and Mrs. McClure. It is followed by The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library. See the full Haunted Bookshop Mystery reading order.
Penelope Thornton-McClure runs Buy the Book, a secondhand bookshop in the small New England town of Quindicott, Rhode Island, that she inherited from her aunt -- and that comes with an unusual permanent resident: the ghost of Jack Shepard, a wisecracking, hard-boiled 1940s private eye who was gunned down in the store decades earlier and can't move on. Only Penelope can hear him, and his blunt, noir-honed instincts for lies and violence make him an invaluable, if invisible, partner whenever a body turns up…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780425199442
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781101008348