Carolyn agrees to act as the family representative at an old family home for a party hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. She is amused to learn they want everything left in its charmingly cobwebby condition–and they want to be visited by a ghost. Much to her surprise, one does oblige. It turns out to be an ancestor.
Vernon uses the parapsychological topics–haunted houses, séances, poltergeists, ghost labs–to explore their place in the realm of spirit studies and how they contribute to (or degrade) to discourse of ghost hunting.
Before Grantchester, there was Father Brown. And before Miss Marple’s poison pen letter, there was Ethel Lina White and her novel of misgivings.
It’s all about literary murder abroad in these two cozy mysteries — one in a French chateau and on aboard the most famous train in the world.
In Georgian London, a widowed Hannah Cole is determined to keep her business afloat. She became sole owner of the confectioner’s shop in Piccadilly after her husband was found murdered. The story takes the reader to the underground rivers of London, pleasure gardens, a magistrate’s office before the days of a police force.