THE HAUNTED GHOST

by Barbara Ninde Byfield ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1973

That nominally retired Haunted Spy of 1969, who last surfaced to solve the riddle of The Haunted Churchbell in 1971, applies his talents here to tracking down the source of the ghastly blue-green glow in the cellar of the castle he shares with the 400 year-old ghost Sir Roger de Rudisill. Then there are the hideous dreams that have been visiting both Sir Roger, who sleeps in the cellar, and Lars the fisherman, who sleeps in his shack on the ice. The villain turns out to be a factory that has been dumping pollution into the lake, but it's soon cleared up after Sir Roger takes to ""haunt[ing] them the way they've been haunting me"". . . even switching from alchemy to the study of chemistry so he can police the lake by taking weekly water samples. Both text and illustrations have more style than the usual picture book about either ghosts or pollution, but we're not sure that Sir Roger (whose experience leaves him ""even more transparent than usual"") has enough strength to transport his airy British wit across the Atlantic.

Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1973

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1973

Categories: CHILDREN'S