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In 1917, Christopher Morley released Parnassus on Rims, a love letter to the artwork of bookselling. Its suspenseful sequel, The Haunted Bookshop, finds his beloved personas married and still in love with both puzzle and literature. Set in a lovingly evoked Brooklyn soon after the finish of World Warfare I, The Haunted Bookshop cleverly juxtaposes a set of middle-aged bookshop owners and two young lovers with a nest of German saboteurs, complete with mysterious clues, red herrings, blushing relationship, derring-do, a needy contest to the rescue, and an explosion. More important, the novel is an eloquent hymn to the bookseller's trade and a fervent plea for the revivifying and redemptive electric power of literature. The unifying thread of this book, and even of the life and work of its publisher, is its keen avowal: all of that the planet and everybody in it requires is a good book.
