Lockwood is great to work with, and Lucy really likes him, maybe too much. Lucy is angry, but it’s only saying things she herself has thought. The skull whispers insulting things about George and especially about Lockwood. Nothing they’ve done has gotten the ghost to speak again…until now. It’s been seven months since the ghostly skull first spoke to her. What is it? She peers around and sees the skull in a jar, glowing green and staring at her. Lucy is exhausted, but as she attempts to rest when they get home, she hears a voice. Thankfully, they all survive this horrifying event. She covers the human remains and the mirror with a silver net, which will control the ghost as long as it stays in place. Lucy hurls her rapier! It passes between the two men and slices into the ghost. The Visitor swoops down and is about to touch both George and Joplin. Joplin experience profound ghost-lock, when a Visitor grasps control of a person’s mind and the person is unable to move or escape. The ghost of Edmund Bickerstaff wafts out from the dead body, and George and Mr. He and one of their employer’s assistants-Albert Joplin-are nearby and view the glass for just an instant and are transfixed. ![]() “Look! Look! You will find your heart’s desire!” The temptation is great, but Lucy resists. They dig up the coffin only to discover it is partially open! The human remains are ghastly but nothing worse than they’ve seen before, except this corpse is holding something in its skeletal hands-glass of some sort, framed in what looks like wooden sticks. The malaise-dread caused by the unhappy dead-is terrible. She is a “listener,” and the only one who can hear such things in their group. They find the grave, and Lucy is immediately aware of a psychic hum. No one knows how he got there! Lockwood takes the case. Plus, he wasn’t supposed to be buried in this cemetery. It was said he was a grave robber and was dealing in witchcraft. The person in the grave-Edmund Bickerstaff-died over a hundred years earlier and had a terrible reputation in life. is approached by a customer wanting them to dispose of the remains of a person buried in a famous cemetery. The loser must take out an advertisement in the paper acknowledging the other team’s superiority. Lockwood challenges Kipps to an Agency versus Agency competition. Lucy is thankful she still has her life, but Kipps and his people have such smug attitudes that soon both teams are furious with one another. They aren’t prepared for all these and must flee, but Lucy trips and falls and is about to be ghost-touched (which would kill her) when she is saved by the arrival of their worst enemies in the psychic detection world: Quill Kipps and his team from the prestigious Fittes Company. Only there’s not just one ghost, but two, and then there are dozens! Lucy, Lockwood, and George are at Mallory’s End, seeking to stop the ghost of an executed criminal who’s returned after two hundred years to haunt a local preschool. ![]() It’s been seven months since the events that ended The Screaming Staircase, and twelve months since Lucy joined the psychic investigation team at Lockwood & Co. ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happened in The Whispering Skull? See the end of the recap for links to her Goodreads, Instagram, and Facebook accounts as well as a link to the book she’s published. Special thanks to Dawn Shipman, a new BSR contributor, who wrote this great recap! Visit her website to check out the books she’s written and to keep up with news about her new releases. If you are wondering what happened in The Whispering Skull, then you are in the right place! series, right here! This page is full of spoilers, so beware. Read a full summary of The Whispering Skull, book #2 in Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood & Co.
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