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A wealthy Hollywood cowboy-cum-movie-producer travels to England in the hope of seeing a ghost, or a voice from beyond: "Something uncanny, you know. Anything. One lousy uncanny thing." He hangs out with a marvelous old woman--a professional skeptic armed with a sword cane and an ever-puffing pipe with a skull-shaped bowl--and the other staff of a semi-tabloid rag called Bizarre! He meets the woman of his dreams, who is billed as being utterly inaccessible and frigid to boot. Then before you can say "conspiracy theory," Andrew Klavan has whipped all of them into a humorous confection with elements of German romantic art, English Gothic architecture, 19th-century ghost stories, Norse mythology, South American cult leaders, Nazi witchcraft, and the Holy Grail. Even the ghost of M.R. James has a key role in the plot.
It's not a deep novel--you get the sense that Klavan doesn't take one iota of it seriously--but it's good supernatural fun. --Fiona Webster
"Gripping...a modern ghost story...the results are exhilarating."
--Chicago Tribune
"Glamorous, eccentric and engrossing. . . .a sort of upscale X-Files."
--St. Petersburg Times (Fla.)
"Entertaining."
--The Orlando Sentinel
"Klavan pulls out all the stops . . . .The suspense is high, the fun factor higher."
--Publishers Weekly
"Shrewd...Lively...Fun."
--The Seattle Times
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