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A Phantom Prowler…
Strange things are happening at Elizabeth Smithwood’s old plantation house in Virginia. First she spotted a ghost in colonial dress. Then she was nearly flattened by a falling crate! Fearing for her life, Elizabeth calls in a pair of unlikely ghost catchers: real-estate agent Ellen McKenzie and her aunt, Mary McGill.
No sooner do they arrive than Elizabeth’s stepson turns up dead, and suspicion falls on Elizabeth. After all, the cause of death is a poisoned glass of syllabub taken from a batch of the sweet after-dinner drink sitting in Elizabeth’s refrigerator. To find the real killer, Ellen and her aunt Mary will have to sift through two hundred years of grudges and vendettas, but the spirits they disturb are far deadlier than either of them could have imagined…