This will be the first in what I plan to be the entire series. I just submitted The Ghost and Mrs. McClure the first in the Haunted Bookshop mysteries by Alice Kimberly. I've read it through, rank spelled it to 99.8 percent, protected chapter titles and page numbers, stripped headers, etc. etc. Summary: The Spirit is willing - to catch a killer... Young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure and her old Aunt Sadie are making ends meet by managing a mystery bookshop - a quaint Rhode Island landmark rumored to be haunted. Pen may not believe in ghosts, but she does believe in good publicity - like nabbing Timothy Brennan for a book signing. But soon after the bestselling thriller writer reveals a secret about the store's link to a 1940s murder, he keels over dead - and right in the middle of the store's new Community Events space. Who gives Mrs. McClure the first clue that it was murder? The bookstore's full-time ghost - a P.I. murdered on the very spot more than fifty years ago. Is he a figment of Pen's overactive imagination? Or is the oddly likable fedora-wearing specter the only hope Pen has to solve the crime? You can bet your everlasting life on it... Natasha and Guide Dog Fossey "I want to be successful like everyone does, but through my idea of success. I don't just mean that I will make a lot of money and be known for what I do, but that I make a difference in someone's life." -- Megan Piontek 1985-2008 {{Miss you forever}}