![]() Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. Rather arcane in places and curiously lacking in thematic ambition, but seamlessly produced: intriguing and absorbing work from a major talent. As Howard becomes romantically involved with Roy's daughter Sylvia, he struggles to make sense of the increasingly odd occurrences and to decide whose side he's on: When old Graham really dies, Howard is destined to become the sketch's new Keeper. Howard calls on his penniless, oddball uncle Roy, former proprietor of a spirit museum, who's fighting a desperate, losing battle against the rapacious magnate and witch Heloise Lamey-she also covets the sketch. ![]() Jimmers, inventor of a machine that materializes ghosts, now occupies his clifftop house. But when Howard arrives, Graham has vanished (supposedly a suicide) the weird Mr. ![]() ![]() To Mendocino comes museum curator Howard Barton in search of the McGuffin of the title, a sketch (?) with magical powers held by mysterious recluse Michael Graham. ![]() Another distinctive northern California magic-realist fantasy from the author of Land of Dreams (1987). ![]()
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