Haunted Bookshop

"Did you ever notice how books track you down and hunt you out?" asks Roger Mifflin, protagonist of this charming novel. "It's one of the uncanniest things I know to follow a real book on its career - it follows you and follows you and drives you into a corner and makes you read it... Words can't describe the cunning of some books." Originally published in 1919, two years after Parnassus on Wheels had introduced readers to Mifflin and Helen McGill, The Haunted Bookshop finds the couple, now married, having set up house and bookshop in Brooklyn. The novel's rollicking plot, an amusing tangle of romance and espionage, provides plenty of diversion while allowing ample room for Mifflin (and Morley) to expound on the intrigue and intricacy of the bookseller's art.