Book Recommendation – The Radio Ghost

I was between books recently and the ones I was waiting for were still unavailable. So I searched for something quick to tide me over until my next read. As a radio guy, you know that the cover of this one made me stop and check it out.

I’m not sure how many pages the book is, as I listened to the audio book. It was about and hour or an hour and a half audio book. I had never heard of the author – Otis Adelbert Kline – but apparently he’s written quite a few books and short stories.

Here is the short Goodreads synopsis:

A mysterious inheritance. A haunted mansion. To claim her late uncle’s fortune, Greta Van Loan must survive a year in his eerie Highland Park estate. Skeptical of the supernatural, she turns to two psychic investigators when strange and terrifying events threaten to change everything she believes. Can Greta uncover the truth—or will the house’s secrets claim her first?

To me, this worked like an old radio show. It wasn’t anything that I had to think too hard about. It played out like an episode of Sam Spade or Johnny Dollar. I could see this also working as something on Suspense or Lights Out.

There were simple, likable characters and the mystery of a haunted mansion. For whatever reason, I just pictured Scooby-Doo. Yeah, it could be a Scooby-Doo mystery.

It was a good “pass the time” book that you could probably read in one setting. Was it amazing? No, but as a short story that requires not too much thinking, it was good.

3 out of 5 stars.