The Professor and the Haunted Lighthouse

The Professor and the Haunted Lighthouse is the 2nd book in the series continuing some two years later. Once again the residents of Cape Hennessey are in the grips of ghost fever with a splash of a Pirate legend.Another ghostly mystery is about to be unraveled when a 99-year lease runs out and the Cape Hennessy Historical Society is in the process of buying the lighthouse and caretakers cottage. A mysterious bidder at the auction turns up and is bidding against another contender who is representing an artist who had vanished over some thirty years ago. A book mysteriously turns up giving Professor Wilson and his colleagues some insight and awareness of a long forgotten legend from the past, involving a decommissioned lighthouse purposely built by Captain Brox for his smuggling racket.Legend has it that one fateful night; Captain Brox vanished after an ambush and was never seen nor heard from again. His betrothed, Elizabeth, is said to haunt the lighthouse cottage having been seen walking along the widows-walk waiting for the return of her beloved Captain. Clare is besieged by mysterious ghostly signs and her friend Eloise is obsessed with her astrological predictions, joins forces in coming together to try to unravel and solve a mystery. And according to legend, Mervyn and Chantelle are in search for an elusive skeleton tree which had apparently manifested in the area.Meanwhile, Vera Finkelstein is in the midst of hatching out a new diabolical scheme with an arch nemesis, Mr. Spider, who holds a secret told to him by a dying man's death-bed confession involving the lighthouse. All the actions reach a climatic and ghostly ending when the lighthouse is seen to be working although decommission for many years ago...