title: Haunting Investigation (The chesterton holte mysteries)
author:  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 
description: "Haunting Investigation, set in the late 1920s in the city of Philadelphia, is a novel that displays Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's characteristic historical accuracy and attention to detail. Here, she combines the mystery and ghost story genres to tell a suspenseful tale of murder with an engaging heroine and a well-drawn cast of characters. This diverting and involving story will leave readers both satisfied and hungering for more stories featuring Poppy Thornton and Chesterton Holte."<br /><strong>Pamela Sargent; award winning author, Earthseed and The Shore of Women</strong><br /><br />If you want to read one of the best mystery writers alive...if you want to have a few delightful hours of compulsive reading, then I suggest you read this haunting Chesterton Holte mystery by the World Fantasy Award Grandmaster Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Dammit, she's that good! (JACK DANN award winning author, The Memory Cathedral 2015-11-19)<br /><br />"Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's work has haunted me all my life, and Haunting Investigation shows why. CQY is a master of the imagination and the queen of storytelling. I can't wait for her next book!" (Nancy Holder -NYT Bestselling Author, Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization 2015-11-19)<br /><br />When I read a book set in a historical period, I hope for two things: an accurate setting, and characters that belong in it. When I read a mystery or a thriller, I have expectations that the characters will be ones I understand and whose fate I care about, coupled with a good puzzle whose solution I didn't see coming and strong action. When I read a fantasy, I want continuity regarding the 'magic system,' in that the rules that the writer set out early in the book are never violated, no matter where the plot goes or how complicated it became. I know, based upon many enjoyable years of reading the work of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, that I am going to find all of the above in the pages of Haunting Investigation.
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  K. A. S. Quinn was born and raised in California and studied History and
  English at Vassar. For ten years she was the publisher of the _Spectator_. She
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  _The Times_ , the _Telegraph_ , the _Independent_ and the _Wall Street
  Journal_ , as well as appearing on _Any Questions_ , _A Good Read_ , _Famous
  
  
  Lives_ and _Broadcasting House_ for the BBC. She and her husband live in
  London with their two boys. She still reads children’s books in bed, after
  lights out, with a torch.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Published in paperback in Great Britain in 2013 by Corvus,  
  
  
  an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © Kimberly Quinn 2013
  
  
  
  
  
  The moral right of Kimberly Quinn to be identified as the author of this work
  has been asserted by her in accordance with the Co