The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co.2)
《洛克伍德靈異偵探社：低語的骷髏頭》
by Jonathan Stroud
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繼洛克偵探所成功破解了全倫敦最邪惡的鬼屋案件后已經過了六個月，本以爲上次的案件已經夠艱辛了，沒想到這次被委托的案件難度升級，接連所遭遇的事件更讓他們舉步維艱...
這次洛克靈異偵探所的任務目的地在維多利亞時期的醫學家埃德蒙德墓穴；他的身份可不像表面那麽簡單，他其實是一名沉迷於黑魔法的瘋狂盜墓賊！據説他擁有一面神奇的鏡子，鏡子所蘊含的神秘力量則是他們的委托者「靈異事件研究與控制部」找上他們的理由。要解決這起委托已經夠麻煩了，沒想到他們還同時要應付來自敵對事務所下的戰帖、會説話的危險骷顱頭，喬治更被那面鏡子奪走了心智！整個事件開始變得撲朔迷離，而背後的陰謀危機似乎遠比想象中還要危險...
*NOW A NETFLIX SERIES*
In this spine-tingling next book of the Lockwood & Co series, the ghost-hunting 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 ghost 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.
