Introduction

Spring 1924. The world has clawed its way back from the ravages of WWI and the Spanish Flu pandemic. The 20's are beginning to roar. Poppy Thornton lives with her Aunt Jo and her excitable cat Maestro in upper-crust Philadelphia. Poppy is determined to make a name for herself as a serious crime reporter, but is stuck reporting on garden parties and ladies' fashion. Then one day her editor assigns her to collect background information on the suicide of a prominent businessman. She soon discovers it was actually a murder… but her surprising source for this information is the ghost of a man killed alongside her father during the Great War. Even if she dared tell anyone, who would believe it? Together Poppy and her "gentleman haunt" follow the trail of a string of murders. But as their investigation narrows in on an all-too-familiar suspect, Poppy becomes a target herself? and wonders if her ghost of a partner will appear in time to keep her from joining him in the after-life.

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Prologue

It really was a beautiful day, thought Chesterton Holte as he looked up into the endless blue of the spring sky. The little Belgian inn was worthy of a postcard: The trees were leafing out, and the Great War seemed much farther away than eighteen miles; even the four German soldiers facing him looked to be more likely to burst into song than to shoot him, their rifles like props for one of Franz Lehar’s operettas rather than deadly weapons. Holte glanced at the crumpled form of the American journalist left beside the midden, and felt a stab of regret — it was unfortunate that he had become a casualty in a conflict that America was not part of, but war was like that — and was sorry that journalist had been mistaken by the soldiers for the spy they had been sent to get rid of. But weighing this one death against the nine hundred soldiers his dispatch would protect, he could not fault his decision to allow the Germans’ their error: the soldiers had been looking for someone speaking English, and could not tell the slight difference between an American and a Canadian accent. ... view entire excerpt...

Discussion Questions

1) What must it have been like for society following the ravages of World War 1 and the Spanish Flu pandemic?

2) What comparisons can be drawn for a woman trying to make it in a "Man's" world in the 1920's and today?

3) Do you believe in Ghosts?

4) How would you react if you were "haunted" by a Ghost?

5) What advice would you give Poppy as she tries to make her way in a world where women are viewed as inferior to men?

6) How would you advise Poppy in solving the mystery she is confronted by?

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