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The Ghost Town Mystery

  • 1999 first published
  • 121 pages
  • 10 editions

Gertrude Chandler Warner's The Ghost Town Mystery (1999) is a ghost story novella. The story is set in Rocky Mountains. Key subjects include orphans, brothers and sisters, ghost towns and ghosts.

19 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 10 editions.

At about 121 pages, most readers finish it in 2–3 hours.

About The Ghost Town Mystery

While visiting a recent purchase of Grandfather's, a ghost town in the Rocky Mountains, the Aldens encounter a mystery involving a run-down motel and a woman who may be a ghost.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

  • Rocky Mountains

Subjects

  • Orphans
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Mystery and detective stories
  • Ghost towns
  • Ghosts
  • Ghost stories
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Boxcar children
  • Children's fiction
  • Rocky mountains
  • Siblings

Quick answers

Who wrote The Ghost Town Mystery?

The Ghost Town Mystery was written by Gertrude Chandler Warner and first published in 1999.

What genre is The Ghost Town Mystery?

It is usually shelved as Ghost Stories.

How long is The Ghost Town Mystery?

The median edition has 121 pages, about 2–3 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Ghost Town Mystery?

Readers who like it often enjoy Lo strano caso del fantasma al Grand Hotel, The Hollow Boy and The Graveyard Book.

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