The Haunted Bookshop

1919

Christopher Morley's 1919 comedy of Roger Mifflin's Brooklyn bookshop, where a young ad man comes to sell his services and stays to court the assistant, and a copy of Carlyle's Cromwell keeps vanishing from the shelves. The sequel to Parnassus on Wheels, with a German-agent plot threaded through the bookshop talk.

Chapter I The Haunted Bookshop
Chapter II The Corn Cob Club
Chapter III Titania Arrives
Chapter IV The Disappearing Volume
Chapter V Aubrey Walks Part Way Home—and Rides The Rest of the Way
Chapter VI Titania Learns the Business
Chapter VII Aubrey Takes Lodgings
Chapter VIII Aubrey Goes to the Movies, and Wishes he Knew More German
Chapter IX Again the Narrative is Retarded
Chapter X Roger Raids the Ice-Box
Chapter XI Titania Tries Reading in Bed
Chapter XII Aubrey Determines to give Service that's Different
Chapter XIII The Battle of Ludlow Street
Chapter XIV The "Cromwell" Makes its Last Appearance
Mr. Chapman Waves His Wand