路德灵异侦探社 第2部：低语骷髅 Lockwood & Co.: The Whispering Skull

基本信息

Series:Lockwood & Co.

Format:Paperback 464 pages

Publisher:Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Imprint:Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

ISBN:9781423194620

Published:15 Sep 2015

Weight:318g

Dimensions:195 x 133 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

*现在是 NETFLIX 系列*

在 Lockwood & Co 系列的下一本令人毛骨悚然的书中，捉鬼团伙面临着可怕的新挑战。

自从安东尼、露西和乔治在英国闹鬼的房子里熬过一夜以来，六个月来 Lockwood & Co. 一直没有取得太大进展。奎尔·基普斯和他的 Fittes 特工团队不断突袭 Lockwood 的调查。安东尼一怒之下向他的对手发起挑战：下次两家公司在工作上竞争时，失败的一方须在《泰晤士报》上承认失败。

当新客户桑德斯先生雇佣 Lockwood & Co. 参加 Edmund Bickerstaff 的挖掘工作时，事情开始好转，据说 Edmund Bickerstaff 是一位维多利亚时代的医生，他曾试图与死者交流。桑德斯需要用银子密封棺材，以防止任何超自然的麻烦。一切进展顺利，直到乔治的好奇心引来了一个可怕的幽灵。

回到波特兰街的家中，洛克伍德指责乔治犯了太多粗心大意的错误。露西被来自鬼罐头骨的急切低语分散了注意力。然后团队被召集到 DEPRAC 总部。基普斯也在那里，这让洛克伍德很恼火。比克斯塔夫的棺材被搜查过，与尸体一起埋葬的奇怪玻璃物体消失了。巴恩斯探长认为这件遗物非常危险，他希望找到它。

大片《巴底买》系列的作者在广受好评的洛克伍德公司系列中又推出了一部有趣、令人不寒而栗、情节巧妙的作品。

赞美《尖叫的楼梯》

“这个故事会让你读到深夜，但你会想开着灯。斯特劳德是一位天才，他创造了一个完全可信的世界，它和我们非常相似，但又如此诡异地不同。把《尖叫的楼梯》列入你的读书名单吧！”——里克·里奥丹

“从头到尾都令人愉悦，这本书适合那些声称宁愿读《失乐园》也不愿读《哈利·波特》的高级读者。斯特劳德聪明机灵、风趣幽默、有时还很吓人，他放开手脚，给读者他们想要的东西。鬼魂、没有成人监督的独处的孩子，还有一大堆美味的饼干。”——伊丽莎白·伯德，《学校图书馆杂志》

“斯特劳德展现了他一贯的将冷面幽默与惊险动作相结合的天赋，洛克伍德公司三位特工之间的激烈互动让故事充满活力（同时还有不少令人毛骨悚然的时刻）。” ——《出版商周刊》

“一连串令人心满意足的近乎灾难的娱乐性故事，充满了狭窄的吱吱声和幽灵般的嚎叫。”——《柯克斯评论》

*NOW A NETFLIX SERIES*

In this spine-tingling next book of the Lockwood & Co series, the gang take on terrifying new challenges.

In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood & Co. hasn't made much progress. Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood's investigations. Finally, in a fit of anger, Anthony challenges his rival to a contest: the next time the two agencies compete on a job, the losing side will have to admit defeat in the Times newspaper.

Things look up when a new client, Mr. Saunders, hires Lockwood & Co. to be present at the excavation of Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead. Saunders needs the coffin sealed with silver to prevent any supernatural trouble. All goes well-until George's curiosity attracts a horrible phantom.

Back home at Portland Row, Lockwood accuses George of making too many careless mistakes. Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in the jar. Then the team is summoned to DEPRAC headquarters. Kipps is there too, much to Lockwood's annoyance. Bickerstaff's coffin was raided and a strange glass object buried with the corpse has vanished. Inspector Barnes believes the relic to be highly dangerous, and he wants it found.

The author of the blockbuster Bartimaeus series delivers another amusing, chilling, and ingeniously plotted entry in the critically acclaimed Lockwood & Co. series.

Praise for The Screaming Staircase

"This story will keep you reading late into the night, but you'll want to leave the lights on. Stroud is a genius at inventing an utterly believable world which is very much like ours, but so creepily different. Put The Screaming Staircase on your 'need to read' list!" -- Rick Riordan

"A pleasure from tip to tail, this is the book you hand the advanced readers that claim they'd rather read Paradise Lost than Harry Potter. Smart as a whip, funny, witty, and honestly frightening at times, Stroud lets loose and gives readers exactly what they want. Youngsters on their own without adult supervision, and loads of delicious cookies." -- Elizabeth Bird, School Library Journal

"Stroud shows his customary flair for blending deadpan humor with thrilling action, and the fiery interplay among the three agents of Lockwood & Co. invigorates the story (along with no shortage of creepy moments)." -- Publishers Weekly

"A heartily satisfying string of entertaining near-troubles, replete with narrow squeaks and spectral howls." -- Kirkus Reviews

作者简介

乔纳森·斯特劳德是洛克伍德公司系列丛书前四部的作者，也是《纽约时报》畅销书《巴底买》的作者，此外他还创作了独立作品《山谷英雄》、《飞跃》、《最后的围攻》和《埋葬之火》。

Jonathan Stroud is the author of four previous books in the Lockwood & Co. series as well as the New York Times bestselling Bartimaeus books, and the stand-alone titles Heroes of the Valley, The Leap, The Last Siege, and Buried Fire.