too many ghosts (original 1959; edition 1959)

by Paul Gallico

Series: Alexander Hero (Book 1)

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The story of Lord Paradine and his haunted, tax-blighted ancestral home.

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Title:	too many ghosts
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Too Many Ghosts by Paul Gallico (1959)

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This book ended up to be better than I had though it would be when I was about halfway through it. The style is quite dated (written in 1959), the characters and descriptions are maddeningly stereotyped, but the untangling of the mysteries was surprisingly satisfying. (

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katmarhan | Nov 6, 2024 |

Alexander Hero, a professionally skeptical psychic investigator, is called in to deal with a plague of ghosts at Parradine Hall, an English stately home turned into a guesthouse.The case is not as brilliant as The Hand of Mary Constable, but it has moments, and is lighter in tone. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Paul Gallico	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Keats, Ezra Jack	frontpiece	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Keats, Ezra Jack	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Paradine Hall, East Walsham, Norfolk, England, UK

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Neither Mr. Alexander Hero nor the author has ever encountered a genuine ghost - but that doesn't mean there aren't any; only that up to now with them the case rests as unproven. In the meantime, all spooks, spirits, bogles, characters, places, and situations in this entertainment are ficticious. No persons living or dead are here delineated. P.G.

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To my long-suffering agent and lifelong friend, HAROLD OBER

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The fact that the grim and extraordinary haunting of Pardine Hall, East Walsham, Norfolk, seat of the Lords Paradine since the year 1523, did not reach the ears of the scandalous press was not only fortunate but little less than a miracle.

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This is a version expanded by a hundred pages or more of the serial published under the title, TOO MANY GHOSTS, by the Saturday Evening Post, November 7, 1959.

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Lord Paradine's lovely ancestral home has become a tax-blighted burden and the haunt of just too many ghosts! Alexander Hero, psychic investigator, is called in from London to exorcise the premises, but he has a most disturbing effect on the ladies of the house...

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