We have just found an advertisement for "The Haunted Bookshop" which
was never released, though it was written before the book was
published. Can you guess the writer of it? We're not at liberty to
tell, for he would never forgive our mentioning his name.
"THIS SHOP IS HAUNTED!"
Such was the sign that met the eyes of those who entered
_Parnassus at Home_, a very unusual bookshop on Gissing Street,
Brooklyn. Roger Mifflin, the eccentric booklover who owned the
shop, only meant that his shop was haunted by the great spirits
of literature, but there were more substantial ghosts about, as
the story tells. Read the curious adventures that befell after
Titania Chapman came to learn the book business in the mellow
atmosphere of the second-hand bookshop of this novel. There was
mystery connected with the elusive copy of Carlyle's _Oliver
Cromwell_, which kept on disappearing from Roger's shelves.
Some readers may remember that Roger Mifflin was the hero of
Mr. Morley's first novel, _Parnassus on Wheels_, though this is
in no sense a sequel, but an independent story.
_The Haunted Bookshop, $1.75_