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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 ke...
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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.§§Praise for The
Screaming Staircase §§"This story will keep you reading late into
the night, but you'll want to leave the lights on. Stroud is a
genius at inventing an utterly believable world which is very much
like ours, but so creepily different. Put The Screaming Staircase
on your 'need to read' list!" -Rick Riordan§§"A pleasure from tip
to tail, this is the book you hand the advanced readers that claim
they'd rather read Paradise Lost than Harry Potter . Smart as a
whip, funny, witty, and honestly frightening at times, Stroud lets
loose and gives readers exactly what they want. Ghosts, kids on
their own without adult supervision, and loads of delicious
cookies." -Elizabeth Bird, School Library Journal §§"Stroud shows
his customary flair for blending deadpan humor with thrilling
action, and the fiery interplay among the three agents of Lockwood
& Co. invigorates the story (along with no shortage of creepy
moments)." - Publishers Weekly§§"A heartily satisfying string of
entertaining near-catastrophes, replete with narrow squeaks and
spectral howls." - Kirkus Reviews