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Lockwood & Co. is a series of young adult thriller novels by Jonathan Stroud, also the writer of the Bartimaeus Sequence. The five novels are: The Screaming Staircase (2013); The Whispering Skull (2014); The Hollow Boy (2015); The Creeping Shadow (2016), and; The Empty Grave (2017).

The series is in the first-person narrative of the protagonist Lucy Carlyle.

All the audio-book versions are read by Emily Bevan.

Premise
The story is set in an alternate modern day London which experiences an event called "the problem", where ghosts appear throughout the city by nighttime and attack the living. Agencies have arisen to fend off the ghosts and protect the public, for a fee, but puts themselves to danger as they do. However, only the youth have the "talent" to sense the ghosts, but will gradually lose them once they reach their twenties. And so the agencies run with the leadership of people who has past their ghost-sensitive ages and with the youth whose talents are instrumental in solving a haunting. All of the agencies but one. That one exception is Lockwood & Co.

The story follows Lucy Carlyle and the agency of Lockwood & Co in which all members are youths. The agency is run and lead by Anthony Lockwood and is with only one member, prior to Lucy's joining, named George Cubbins. Together with their skills and "talents" in synergy, they investigate and solve deathly haunting. In their investigations as the series progresses, deeper mysteries unravel on the truth about ghosts and the problem.

General Lore

 * A Ghost: Ghosts in the novel are revenants usually without actual sentience and only their obsessions. It is given categorization. Types 1, 2, and 3 Ghosts. Each type has sub-categories. Type 1 are most common. Type 2 are strong and dangerous. Type 3 can communicate with the living who has talents. Each ghost is tied to the world through a "source".
 * A "source": is any object that a ghost is connected with where it must have been a special thing to the ghost when he/she was still alive. Eliminating a "source" frees a ghost.
 * Psychical investigation agency: They are agencies that investigate haunting. Lockwood & Co. included.
 * "The problem": It refers to the occurrence of nightly haunting that began only over 50 years ago. At the beginning of it all stood two youths, Marissa Fittes and Tom Rotwell, who devised ways of eliminating ghosts.
 * "Talents": It refers to the skill of each person in sensing a ghost. It may be a mix of any sense in varying degrees of sight, hearing, touch, and smell.

Characters
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 * Lucy Carlyle: is the narrator and main protagonist; was 15 and the newest member of Lockwood & Co. by book 1; has exceptional talent in hearing. ghosts.
 * Anthony Lockwood: is a charming and intelligent leader of Lockwood & Co.; is mysterious on the history of his family's absence; is a skilled swordsman and has exceptional talent with sight.
 * George Cubbins: is unhygienic, gourmand, portly, and slovenly; has no exceptional talent with sensing ghosts but specializes with research and preparation before an investigation.