This book was fun to read due to the humorous writing style as well as the text being in letter format.  Some of the characters are town phantoms and there are mysteries to solve.  The story is about a small town which is about to lose it’s post office in lieu of a new technology called VEXT-mail (which is hilariously faulty).  To spice up the story a bit, there is strange, mysterious and sometimes mildly threatening fan mail arriving at Spence Mansion, the home of eleven year-old Seymour Hope and his adoptive parents  Ignatius Grumply (an elderly writer) and Olive C. Spence (a ghost writer, literally!).  Most of the characters have phonetically comical names such as Dr. Izzy Dedyet, the town doctor.  Seymour and his new friend Wy Fye (who is addicted to texting on her cell phone) work to solve the mysteries and save the post office.  A light and entertaining read, Ms. Klise’s books are popular in our school library (K – 8 gr).