Guess who read a book a month and a half ago and hasn't reviewed it yet? That would be your slightly tired and long-suffering book lass over here. I swear I meant to review The Whispering Skull with speed, but then I left to see the eclipse and then school started and... Oh dear. Well, it seems fitting, doesn't it, that there should be an unholy gap between reading this book and reviewing it, considering that there was also an unholy gap between reading the first and second books in this fine series.
If you haven't read the first book in this series, allow me to direct you to my review of that one first.
Six months after their mission in The Screaming Staircase, Lucy, Lockwood, and George have taken a job sealing the coffin of a Victorian doctor who may have communicated with the dead. In the process, a vicious ghost is unleashed and a dangerous artifact stolen and loosed upon the city. The Lockwood agents, along with their rivals from Fittes, are ordered to find the missing artifact and recover it before it kills again.
Lucy, Lockwood, and George enter into a surreptitious competition with their Fittes colleagues, taking them across London from grand parties to unsavory riversides. Before too long, the agents find themselves turning to the skull in the ghost jar.