Whispering Skull Author:Jonathan Stroud Book 2 Lockwood and Company series — 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, which is creating a bit of tension back home at Portland Row. — Things look... more » up when a new client, Mr. Saunders, hires Lockwood & Co. to be present at the exhumation of Edmund Bickerstaff, a doctor who, in Victorian times, purportedly 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.
That isn't the only chaos that follows the phantom's release. Inspector Barnes of DEPRAC informs Lockwood and Kipps that Bickerstaff's coffin has been raided and a strange glass object has been stolen.
He beleives the relic to be highly dangerous, and he wants it found. Meanwhile, Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in the ghost jar....« less