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In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood & Co. hasn't made much progress. Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood's investigations. Finally, in a fit of anger, Anthony challenges his rival to a contest: the next time the two agencies compete on a job, the losing side will have to admit defeat in the Times newspaper.
Things look up when a new client, Mr. Saunders, hires Lockwood & Co. to be present at the excavation of Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead. Saunders needs the coffin sealed with silver to prevent any supernatural trouble. All goes well-until George's curiosity attracts a horrible phantom.
Back home at Portland Row, Lockwood accuses George of making too many careless mistakes. Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in the ghost jar. Then the team is summoned to DEPRAC headquarters. Kipps is there too, much to Lockwood's annoyance. Bickerstaff's coffin was raided and a strange glass object buried with the corpse has vanished. Inspector Barnes believes the relic to be highly dangerous, and he wants it found.
The author of the blockbuster Bartimaeus series delivers another amusing, chilling, and ingeniously plotted entry in the critically acclaimed Lockwood & Co. series.
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“Stroud writes with a fine ear for dialog, a wry sense of humor, and a knackfor describing haunted places. Creating tension that ebbs and flows, he slowlybuilds the dramatic narrative to a resounding crescendo, and he makes thequitter scenes that follow just as compelling. The second entry in the Lockwood& Company series, this imaginative adventure features one of the mosthair-raising chase scenes in children’s fiction. At the book’s end, when theenigmatic Anthony Lockwood reveals a chilling secret, readers can only hopethat more sequels are in the offing.”
— Booklist
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“An occult portal and its spectral guardian nearly cut short the careers of three rising young ghost hunters in this madcap sequel to The Screaming Staircase…continuing their predilection for falling into predicaments that require rapier work and fast exits…For all their internecine squabbling, the three protagonists make a redoubtable team—and their supporting cast, led by the sneering titular skull in a jar, adds color and complications aplenty. Rousing adventures for young tomb robbers and delvers into realms better left to the dead. “
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“In this spine-chilling sequel to The Screaming Staircase, Stroud again demonstrates his ease in the world of the macabre and truly frightening…The plot gallops along at a breakneck pace, giving little respite from the horrors within. For fans of scary fare, this page-turner is a dream (or nightmare) come true.”
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“Narrator Katie Lyons smoothly takes the reigns in Stroud’s second ghost-detecting escapade…Lyons is skilled at maintaining a breakneck pace while also capturing the group dynamic—Lucy’s no-nonsense narrative, George’s snarky comments, and Lockwood’s cool and confident exterior. Lyons’ flexibility with emotions is well suited to Stroud’s talent for mixing the gruesome with the laugh-out-loud funny. Her perfect rendering of the skull’s unearthly whispers will pique the interest of any fan of macabre adventures.”
— AudioFile
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About Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Stroud is the author of the New York Times bestselling Bartimaeus Trilogy, as well as The Leap, The Last Siege, Buried Fire, and Heroes of the Valley. He lives in England with his family.