“Of the first few hauntings I investigated with Lockwood & Co. I intend to say little, in part to protect the identity of the victims, in part because of the gruesome nature of the incidents, but mainly because, in a variety of ingenious ways, we succeeded in messing them all up.”
“At Lockwood & Co., George was famous for not being able to throw or catch with any accuracy. Back in the kitchen at Portland Row, even the casual passing out of fruit or bags of chips became an exercise fraught with danger.”
Cover Lover Saturday ~ Lockwood & Co #5: The Empty Grave
‘That’s Edmund Bickerstaff,’ Joplin said. ‘And as you’ll discover from this article in the Hampstead Gazette, dated 1877, he’s been dead and gone a long time. Now, it seems, he’s reappeared.’
Blog Tour ~ Lockwood & Co #5: The Empty Grave Jonathan Stroud ~ Excerpt + Giveaway
‘I was given to understand, sir,’ Lockwood said, ‘that your employees had been approached about the cluster of Visitors here, and had chosen not to respond.