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What if a haunted castle needs not a ghost hunter, but someone brave enough to question its legends?
Warren Jarvis is a young Kentuckian with a good heart and little patience for surrendering to fear. When he meets Maria Theresa, a Spanish princess in danger, he sets out to help her. Her family is tied to an old castle in Spain, where a dark reputation and the legend of hidden treasure promise more than a simple rescue.
The Ghost Breaker by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey carries Jarvis across the Atlantic into a world of stone castles, long memories and inherited dread. Mystery, romance and comedy keep the adventure moving. Beneath the excitement lies a sharper question: when old legends can protect a family or become weapons, how does a brave outsider know what to trust?
What you’ll discover
- Courage against inherited fear Follow a hero who takes ghosts seriously but refuses to bow before them.
- A princess in danger Meet Maria Theresa, whose family ties draw Jarvis toward a castle with a dark reputation.
- Across the Atlantic Travel from the United States to Spain, where old legends carry a threatening weight.
- The lure of treasure Explore a mystery that brings hidden riches and a supposedly haunted castle together.
- Dread with a smile Enjoy gothic atmosphere lightened by comedy, romance and a hero quick to act.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy swashbuckling romance, quick banter, haunted castles, hidden treasure, and a clever hero who wins by wit as much as by courage. It also suits anyone curious about old stage-style adventure.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A dying father demands vengeance
- A fugitive finds shelter with a princess
- A trunk carries him aboard the liner
- Warren the Ghost Breaker fools the police
- A wager and a vanishing act at sea
- Seguro waits and the castle calls
Who’s who
- Warren JarvisA Kentucky gentleman and export merchant who swears to avenge his parents, then takes up a princess's cause as her vassal and Ghost Breaker.
- Maria TheresaThe Princess of Aragon, calm and quick-witted, who needs a brave helper to find her missing brother and the family treasure.
- Rusty SnowWarren's loyal manservant from Kentucky, always hungry and easily frightened, yet clever enough to follow an enemy across the country.
- Carlos, Duke of AlvaThe Princess's polished cousin, who courts her, sneers at Americans, and wants to keep Warren away from the castle.
- DoloresPedro's spirited daughter at the inn, who is loyal to the Princess and warns Warren of danger.
- Don RobledoA swordsman and bully who rules the inn's customers by threats and takes the Duke's orders.
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Der Geisterbezwinger
by Charles Goddard; Paul Dickey · 1915
A Kentuckian hides in a princess's steamer trunk and sails for Spain to break a ghost's hold on her castle.
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A dying father, a hotel bedroom, a steamer trunk and a haunted Spanish castle. The Ghost Breaker, by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey, moves at a gallop.
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A dying father demands vengeance
Warren Jarvis rides home to Meadow Green, Kentucky, with his manservant Rusty Snow. He finds his father, Colonel Jarvis, dying, shot in the back on a village street. His mother has died the night before from the shock.
The family feud is nearly eighty years old, and Warren has now lost both his parents. Warren kneels by the body and swears an oath like a knight taking his vows.
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What is The Ghost Breaker about?
It follows Warren Jarvis, a Kentuckian who flees New York after a feud shooting and takes shelter with a Spanish princess. He becomes her vassal and sails to Spain to find her missing brother and a hidden treasure in a haunted castle.
Who is the Ghost Breaker in the book?
Warren Jarvis gives himself that title aboard the Mauretania. He claims to make a living by solving ghost mysteries, and he says the same shrewd approach works on spooks, horse thieves and wildcats.
Is The Ghost Breaker a true story?
No, it is a made-up adventure by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey, written in the early twentieth century. Its feud, steamships and castle belong to melodrama, though the New York and Kentucky settings reflect real places of the time.
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