The Two Hundred Ghost - Henrietta Hamilton
The Two Hundred Ghost by Henrietta Hamilton Sally Merton is working in an antiquarian bookshop at 200 Charing Cross road. It is an old building and the rumor is that there is a ghost due to a murder long ago. It seems the ghost has returned and is seen by some of the employees. Sally is fond of her job in the Heldar family’s shop, but not of the rude, inappropriate mr. Butcher. He is not very popular and is later found stabbed in his office and Scotland Yard is called. Sally and Johnny Heldar (junior partner) start their own investigation to solve the murder and the ghost story. I enjoyed reading this novel very much. It is a novel from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction published in the “Uncrowned Queens of Crime Series”. The setting in an antiquarian bookshop is interesting and the various people employed there are described very well, and the plot was exciting. It was a great reunion with Sally and Johnny, who also solved the murder case in Answer in the Negative. Both novels w