The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage

Or maybe it's Harm's brother Flick Crenshaw, and his girlfriend, bank employee Miss Filch a/k/a Rat Face who also have an interest in the Inn. How else would he get the money he always has without a job? Rumor has it that he is still making moonshine in a hidden still that has been in his family since the Inn was first opened so many years ago.

Red Baker, whose grandson Harm Crenshaw, 11, has come to live with him, has his own reasons for not wanting the Inn renovated. And there are any number of possible suspects. To make matters worst, there is something or someone underfoot sabotaging the renovations, and it doesn't appear to be the ghost. If renovating the Inn fails, not only will Miss Lana and her financial partner Grandmother Miss Lacy Thornton face financial ruin, but so will many others in the town, including Dale's mother. What could be better than interviewing a ghost, after all, 'ain't older than dead.'īut interviewing the ghost for an A in history isn't Mo's only motivation. And when Sixth Grade begins the next day, their teacher, Miss Retzyl, hands them the perfect way to solve the mystery of just who the ghost might be: a three page paper based on interviews with Tupelo Landings eldest citizens to mark the town's 250th anniversary. In this sequel to Sheila Turnage's Newbury Honor novel Three Times Lucky, Mo and her best friend Dale find themselves embroiled in another mystery after Miss Lana, one of Mo's guardians, accidentally places a high bid on an old dilapidated inn, complete with a certified ghost.Īnother mystery for Mo and Dale of the Desperado Detective Agency to solve? Maybe, after all, they have one successfully solved mystery under their belt.

The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage