Resumen
Resumen de El rompefantasmas
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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.
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The Ghost Breaker is a comic adventure by two American authors, Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey, and it moves fast. It begins in the quiet Bluegrass country of Kentucky, where a young man named Warren Jarvis kneels beside his dying father and swears vengeance. A few chapters later he is hiding in a hotel bedroom in New York, then in a steamer trunk bound for Europe. Before long he is riding toward a haunted castle in Spain. The book is written in short, lively scenes full of quick talk and sharp turns.
You get a hero who jokes in the face of danger, a Spanish princess who needs him, a manservant named Rusty Snow who is afraid of everything and loyal anyway, and a duke whose smile hides a plan. You also get a vanished fortune, a locket with a secret inside, and a ghost that nobody has beaten. Each chapter closes on a small shock that pulls you on. Let us begin with the feud that sets Warren moving.
En este resumen
- 1A dying father demands vengeanceFree
- 2A fugitive finds shelter with a princess
- 3A trunk carries him across the Atlantic
- 4Warren the Ghost Breaker fools the police
- 5A wager and a vanishing act at sea
- 6Seguro waits and the castle calls
Idea clave 1 de 6
A dying father demands vengeance
The story opens as Warren Jarvis rides home to Meadow Green, Kentucky, with his manservant Rusty Snow. A telegram from his father has called him from New York. He arrives to find old Colonel Henderson Jarvis dying on a settee, shot in the back on a village street. Warren's mother has died the night before, unable to bear the shock.
The colonel tells what happened. He was riding home from the doctor with medicine for his wife when Jim Marcum stepped out of a poolroom and taunted him. Moments later a shot struck him from behind, just as his own father had once been shot by a Marcum. The feud between the two families is nearly eighty years old, and now only Jim Marcum and Warren are left to carry it.
The colonel's last order is to bury his wife and himself together and then end the feud. Warren kneels beside the body and swears an oath, like a knight taking his vows. The scene shows the world he comes from, a place of colonels, thoroughbreds, garden flowers and a code of honor that has cost three generations their lives. It also shows how far he has traveled from it, after years of work in Brazil, Guatemala and Panama and a business life in New York.
The chase soon turns around. Warren plans a quiet manhunt through the mountains, but Rusty has been following Marcum's trail on his own. His telegram says he is coming with Marcum, and he catches Warren outside a New York club to say that the man has come to the city with a gun. Rusty hands over a pistol he bought by going without pork chops, since New York law forbids carrying one. A friendly note from Marcum asking to shake hands does not fool Warren, who burns it and tells a friend at the club that he may take a long journey tonight.
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Questions about El rompefantasmas
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.
Is The Ghost Breaker easy to read?
Yes, it suits quick reading, with short chapters, lively dialogue and plenty of humor. Scenes change fast, and each chapter ends on a small surprise, so the plot is easy to follow from one night to the next.
What is the main message of The Ghost Breaker?
The book suggests that courage and a clear head beat fear. Warren tests rumor with questions and action, while the Spanish villagers trust what they are told. It also plays with ideas of rank, honor and love between a republic's son and a princess.