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Title: Selecting a Ghost Title Record # 944516
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Date: 1883-12-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: librivox.org
Language: English
Note: Non-supernatural, with a faked haunting. First published in London Society, December 1883, as "Selecting a Ghost: The Ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange." Not the same as Doyle's early story "The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe."
Synopsis: Argentine D'Odd is a successful man with a lovely wife, thriving bank account and a dignified (if fabricated) knightly heritage. But Goresthorpe Grange, his newly-purchased 'ancestral' home, lacks the one thing he wants most in the world: a ghost. Fortunately, there are people that can help with that. Unfortunately, the one who arrives is a con man. Synopsis taken from publisher's website.
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1887 Selecting a Ghost: The Ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange
1889 The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange [as by A. Conan Doyle]
1893 Selecting a Ghost: The Ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange [as by A. Conan Doyle]
1895 The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange [as by uncredited]
1969 The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
1988 The Ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange
1998 Selecting a Ghost [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
2010 The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange
Year Language Title
1981Translated by Albert Savine.
French Le manoir hanté de Goresthorpe
1984Translated by Wolf B. Oerter, Ingeborg Šestáková, Vladimír Varecha, and/or Anna Wirthová
German Die Geisterwahl
1990Translated by Marta Simonetti and Claudio De Nardi.
Italian Fantasma cercasi

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle 1979-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications 0-486-23725-7
$6.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
302
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Lida Moser Checkmark
The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle 1979-08-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications 0-486-23725-7
$4.00?$: US dollar
xiv+
302
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Lida Moser Checkmark
Supernatural Sleuths: Stories of Occult Investigators 1986-03-00 ed. Peter Haining William Kimber 0-7183-0597-3
£8.50?£: UK pound
226
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Ionicus  
Ghost Stories 1987-06-00 ed. Aleš Haman, Irena Zítková Exeter Books 0-671-08750-9   209
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Jan Dungel Checkmark
The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle 1989-06-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Amereon House 0-8488-0752-9
$30.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
302
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction 2004-05-22 Arthur Conan Doyle Ash-Tree Press 1-55310-068-9
C$60.00?C$: Canadian dollar
xxxviii+
460
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Paul Lowe  
The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction 2012-02-22 Arthur Conan Doyle Ash-Tree Press 978-1-55310-217-5
$7.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Paul Lowe Checkmark
The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction 2012-02-22 Arthur Conan Doyle Ash-Tree Press 978-1-55310-216-8
$7.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Paul Lowe  
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