SOLVED. YA Supernatural Mystery set in early 20th century, one character an Anglophile with a ghost in the kitchen. [s]

[Delanie]

I would have read this in the last 2-3 years, but not sure on publication. One of the characters is an older eccentric lady obsessed with England and the monarchy who insists on driving her electric jalopy around town and is spectacularly bad at it. There is a ghost in the kitchen who the other two characters--adolescent? Boy and girl--soothe or take so she will bake treats for them. There is a hucksters seance with a mean magician and a girl he uses for the poltergeist in his seance show. Sylvia, maybe, but I could be very wrong on the name.

[Kris]

Delanie, what's the location (country/region/city/small town)?

What's the tone - e.g., mystery, cozy mystery, thriller, romance, funny, sad/somber, etc.? For teens (young adults) or older adults?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Delanie is still looking and wrote:

"I read this book a few years ago. There is a girl who is working with a sleazy fake magician who becomes friends with a boy from town, and a spinster who drives her automobile like an absolute maniac. There is a ghost in her kitchen and there may have been a murder (resulting in the ghost)."

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Nemo]

'Ghosts I Have Been' by Richard Peck.

[Kris]

Nemo's suggestion of Ghosts I Have Been by Richard Peck sounds like your book.

Amazon's preview (sample): https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Have-Be...
There are different cover images.

Google Books has a snippet search. You might get lucky searching for keywords:
https://books.google.com/books?id=FS8...

Quotes from the book:
- Right behind the trolley was coming Miss Dabney in her Pope-Detroit Electric. Most Bluff City people with automobiles have the gasoline or ...
- Riding in her Pop-Detroit Electric is an experience in itself. People will stop and stare, some in alarm.
- "I'll explain on our way down to the Odd Fellows Hall. But only if you're sure you can drive an electric auto. I wouldn't want it turned over ..."
- Strange noises and the banging of the oven door at all hours have only added to my reputation for ...
- ... she was entirely too excited by the busting up of the fake seance ...
- Still, I managed to tell him all about Professor Regis and the Spirit Sybil and what a fake seance was.

[Delanie]

it is DEFINITELY Ghosts I Have Been; I was thinking it was two separate books. thank you!

[Kris]

Great! Glad you found your book, Delanie.

Ghosts I Have Been (book 2) of the Blossom Culp series by Richard Peck - Nemo's find.