2 -24 Carrot Caper: A Marcall's Breakfast Cafe Paranormal Cozy Mystery (Marcalls Breakfast Cafe Paranormal Cozy Mystery) by B I Skinner

Author:B I Skinner
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Felix the Cat Rocks
Published: 2021-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The next day when Miranda stops at Marcall’s I fill her in on Creepy Stranger and how I’m sure he has a stolen library book in his briefcase.

“Ohhhh Miles won’t like that. He gets outraged when people try to steal books.”

“Don’t they have some kind of security tag on them?”

She laughs. “In Crested Peaks? No. Theft isn’t a huge problem for the library here. Especially when you can buy a lot of books these days for a few dollars at most and have it delivered to your doorstep. Stealing them isn’t worth it.”

“So, it would be easy to steal, especially if you were a dangerous mobster who doesn’t want anybody knowing that you have that book!”

“Do you still have the picture of Creepy Stranger?” Miranda asks as I watch a lightbulb go on over her head.

“Of course!”

“What if he’s staying at the Hotel Glacier? The chances are good, right?”

“We can ask Harvey if he’s seen him." I shout back to the kitchen, "Hey Damien, we’re going out for a bit.”

“Okay, not looking for dead bodies I hope?” he shouts back.

“Not this time!” I tell him.

Miranda and I hurry toward the Hotel Glacier. It's the town's most prominent hotel which, like many of the buildings around here, dates back to the mid and late 1800s. In its heyday, it was pure opulence. Where the rich and famous stayed. Now its main draw is its history, ghost stories, and paranormal activity.

Harvey, one of the hotel’s most well-known spirits, likes to wax poetic about the good old days. He loves to remind us that the hotel was considered an architectural miracle at the time; considering the materials they needed to build it were carried by covered wagons over treacherous mountain passes. It was even the first in the area to have actual gas lights inside the building. No expense was spared.

Some ghosts still live there. A few of them are like Harvey and interact with guests, while some lurk in the shadows and torment the guests. Still, others are likely just urban legends. But there are always tales of noises in the middle of the night. Things being moved when no one is around. Gusts of icy air blowing through rooms, even when the windows are closed.

They get a lot of tourists who stay there just for the experience. Halloween is their biggest holiday of the year, where they host a huge bash. Harvey ran the Hotel Glacier when it first opened but was caught in the middle of a shootout between the sheriff and a bank robber.

His spirit simply stuck around to help with the daily duties of the hotel. He's also been known to run off customers he doesn't like. Similar to Gladys, Harvey often has the tea on who's doing what within the town. Although unlike Gladys he's limited to staying on the hotel grounds and can get a little grumpy when he thinks he's being used just for information.

Once we get there, it takes a while to locate him.

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