William Ritter’s Jackaby (2014) is a pleasant young adult mystery with a smart girl main character and a title character who is the Sherlock Holmes of the paranormal.
It’s 1892 in New England, and Abigail Rook has just stepped off a freighter onto the waterfront of New Fiddleham. Abigail is British, the daughter of a socialite mother and a globe-trotting paleontologist father. Raised to be a lacy, docile, obedient girl, Abigail kicked over the traces and went to Europe on a “dinosaur dig” of her own.
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Hey, any book with a ghost, a goat girl AND a vampire can't be all bad, right?
Whoa! Cool.
these sound fascinating
Hi Marion, The List of 5 is by James Davis Nicoll, rather than James Driscoll! Thanks for doing these entries.…
Surely, not the worst things in the world to collect: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubs_not_in_series.cgi?408