The Haunted Bookshop - The Library of the Uncommons

English language

Published Nov. 21, 2018 by Standard Ebooks.

“This shop is haunted” reads the sign on the front of the bookshop; not by the ghost of a person from the past, but by the ghosts of all great literature which haunt all libraries and bookstores.

        <p>The owner of the bookshop is so focused on his books that he cannot see the unusual things that are going on in his shop. It takes a young advertising salesman who is seeking new business and the daughter of a rich client who has been sent to earn a living for herself in the bookshop to discover the plot that’s brewing amongst the bookshelves.</p> <p><i>The Haunted Bookshop</i> is a gentle mystery story which is full of wonderful literary references. It is set in the aftermath of the First World War before the Paris Peace Conference took place in an age where the “Lost and Found” columns are <em>the</em> place to look …

“This shop is haunted” reads the sign on the front of the bookshop; not by the ghost of a person from the past, but by the ghosts of all great literature which haunt all libraries and bookstores.

        <p>The owner of the bookshop is so focused on his books that he cannot see the unusual things that are going on in his shop. It takes a young advertising salesman who is seeking new business and the daughter of a rich client who has been sent to earn a living for herself in the bookshop to discover the plot that’s brewing amongst the bookshelves.</p>
        <p><i>The Haunted Bookshop</i> is a gentle mystery story which is full of wonderful literary references. It is set in the aftermath of the First World War before the Paris Peace Conference took place in an age where the “Lost and Found” columns are <em>the</em> place to look for significant information.</p>

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Christina reviewed The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

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3 stars

I am wowed to see that at time of press, January 1919, bookseller Roger Mifflin dismisses Douglas Fairbanks guide to life book as mere piffle, derides Tarzan the Ape Man as cheap entertainment, and says " to laugh at Fatty Arbuckle is to degrade the human spirit", yet counts among his collected treasures an autographed letter from a Charles Spencer Chaplin.

Not the greatest crime mystery novella, and a lot of ephemeral writer mentions escape me, a few didn't. I do not know if the remark about a cinematic epoch dawning with the Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew's foray into motion pictures is sarcastic or didn't age well. They aren't depicted on many Hollywood history or encyclopedia books.

Subjects

Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Mystery and detective stories