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 were kindly given to me by Agora Books via NetGalley.

Henrietta Hamilton was an English writer known for her stories about amateur sleuths

Sally and Johnny Helder.
I haven’t been able to find much about the writer but she is the author of:
The Two Hundred Ghosts (1956)
Death at One Blow (1957)
Answer in the Negative (1959)
A Night to Die (1959)