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I thought this was going to be about the book selling profession and code use between post WWI German spies with books. It felt like the story was created surrounding a one-liner joke about books and their power. The prequel to this book, Parnassus On Wheels (same author), has better players than this book despite the characters returning in a minor role for The Haunted Bookshop. Perhaps the nearly 100 span of time between publication and my reading this in an era of astounding access to knowled
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Roger and Helen Mifflin own a second-hand bookshop in Brooklyn, and Roger couldn't be happier. Though they aren't wealthy, Roger adores his books and can talk books all day. When a wealthy patron asks the Mifflins to take in his daughter and teach her the trade, in the hopes she'll gain an education, Roger is delighted to have a student. Aubrey Gilbert, a new young friend of Roger's is also delighted with beautiful Titiana, but he doesn't think Brooklyn is a safe place for her. There is somethin
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This is not a story about a haunted bookshop. Its a mystery surrounding a bookstore named The Haunted Bookshop. Full of great book lovers quotes and books from the turn of the century.
Sequel to Parnassus on Wheels (1917), a quirky book about a romance between a traveling bookseller and a middle-aged spinster. In this installment written in 1919, the two protagonists have settled down and now have a bookshop in Brooklyn. Although Morley's books are now quite dated, they have a sort of innocence that's charming, underpinned by a sincere love of all things bookish that will appeal to bibliophiles. There's a plot involving espionage that allows the bookseller and his friends to a
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