Boy hero Tom, Hugo the Averagely Spooky Ghost, and famed ghoul hunter Hetty Hyssop have formed an agency dedicated to dealing with difficult apparitions. No spook can defeat them-until their too close encounter with a Gruesome Invincible Lightning Ghost.

This superheated specter (or "GILIG," in ghosthunter-speak) has taken over the penthouse suite of a beachfront hotel, where it's passing its eternal vacation by turning guests into ghosts themselves!

Maybe Hugo's slime can douse the flaming phantom- or maybe the ghosthunters' plan is doomed to go up in smoke.

Excerpt:
It's always the same with dangerous adventures: They start off quite harmlessly.

One fine autumn day, the famous ghosthunter Hetty Hyssop received a letter. It was from a certain Alvin Bigshot, manager of a posh seaside hotel that appeared to be suffering from a couple of small but unpleasant problems; problems that could only be explained as ghostly. Mr. Bigshot was therefore asking the experts at Hyssop & Co. for immediate - and above all discreet - help.

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