Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure has just received a rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe's works. Rumor has it a secret code, trapped within the pages, leads to buried treasure. But it seems everyone who buys a volume dies. Now Pen needs resident ghost P.I. Jack Shepard to help crack the case. Original.
Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her ghostly companion must solve the case of a literary killer in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly.

Pen has just received an extremely rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe's complete works. Rumor has it a secret code, trapped within the books' leather-bound pages, leads to buried treasure. Well, it looks like they got the buried part right--because, as Pen sells off the valuable volumes, everyone who buys...dies.

Once these books go missing from their owners' cold hands, Pen will need resident ghost and hard-boiled P.I. Jack Shepard to help crack the case. The police are skeptical that the deaths involved foul play--so it's up to them to unravel these shocking endings...