The Case of the Green-Dressed Ghost

by Lucy Banks

  Kester turned and winked at Serena, gesturing to Mike’s kicking legs. “You can’t deny it though—he is a catch.”

  Hearing the snarl of rage, he ran to the downstairs toilet, locking himself in before she had a chance to catch up. Pressing his head against the door, he laughed until his glasses misted up.

  Perhaps it wouldn’t be so bad after all, he thought, taking a moment to compose himself. For the first time in his life, he actually felt like he belonged somewhere—that people wanted him around, and didn’t just think he was a pale, plump idiot. He thought of the others. His father. The spirit door. Exeter. It was a different life to the one he was used to—a strange, frightening, completely stark-raving insane kind of life. But it might just work.

  Maybe I could get used to this, he realised.

  About the Author

  Lucy Banks grew up in provincial Hertfordshire, before fleeing to the wilds of Devon, where she now lives with her husband and two boys. As a child, she spent a disproportionate amount of time lurking in libraries, and prowling car-boot sales to feed both her hunger for books and her book collection. It’s fair to say that she’s bypassed being a bookworm, and become a book-python instead. Today, most of the available space in her house is stuffed to the brim with literature, which is just the way she likes it.

  After teaching English Literature to teens, Lucy set up her own copywriting company and turned her love for the written word into a full-time career. However, the desire to create never went away, so Lucy turned her insomnia into a useful tool—penning her novels in the wee small hours of the night and the stolen moments of the day.

  Lucy has enjoyed inhabiting worlds of her own creation from a young age. While her initial creations were somewhat dubious, thankfully, her writing grew as she did, becoming more coherent, as well as riveting. Writing has been a lifelong exercise for Lucy, and she loves the process from the beginning inklings of an idea to the care spent editing interesting tales. She takes particular delight in creating worlds that closely overlap reality with key intriguing differences. The odd, the jarring, and the curious are all themes that often feature prominently in her stories.

  The Case of the Green-Dressed Ghost, is Lucy’s first published novel, and the first in the series, Dr Ribero’s Agency of the Supernatural. The series unites the realm of the strange with the everyday world. It’s a place where chaotic spirits rub shoulders with businessmen, and nothing is quite as it seems.

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to real places are used fictitiously. Names, characters, fictitious places, and events are the products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, places, or events is purely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2017 by Lucy Banks

  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, in part or in whole, in any form whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

  Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data

  Names: Banks, Lucy, author.

  Title: Dr. Ribero’s Agency of the Supernatural : the case of the green dressed ghost / by Lucy Banks.

  Description: New York, NY: Amberjack Publishing, 2017.

  Identifiers: ISBN 978-1-944995-04-1 (pbk.) | 978-1-944995-12-6 (ebook) | LCCN 2016947703

  Subjects: LCSH Ghosts--Fiction. | Supernatural--Fiction. | Fathers and sons--Fiction. | Private Investigators--Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories. | Exeter (England)--Fiction. | London (England)--Fiction. | BISAC FICTION / Occult & Supernatural | FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators.

  Classification: LCC PS3602.A641 2017 | DDC 813.6--dc23

  Cover Design: Emma Graves