Someone in the House by Barbara Michaels

Anne is a graduate student who is getting tired of her boyfriend.  When Harry gets a fellowship abroad, Anne decides not to go with him.  Instead she accepts an invitation to spend the summer in a restored English Manor house that has been transported to Pennsylvania with a research collaborator, Kevin. At the beginning, the summer seems to be going great.  Anne likes Kevin and Kevin's recently divorced aunt, Bea. But then strange things start to happen.  Kevin seems to be spending the night with a spectral lover, and other supernatural phenomenon trouble the household. Is it a ghost, or some other supernatural entity, and what can they do to get rid of it before something terrible happens?

I am almost embarrassed to blog this book.  I choose it in a hurry because I had finished my last one and didn't want to listen to the radio news all the way to work and back.  I didn't realize at the time it was published in the 80's.  It is a B level supernatural mystery at best.  The "clues" don't really lead to the ultimate conclusion, which isn't really very convincing or satisfying. Still, I enjoyed it enough to finish it. It was a little bit fun to read a story that was pre-cell phone and pre-internet.  The main characters where in college about the same time I was in high school. They had to go to a library to do research and when the lights went out nobody had a camera light they could switch on.  Film had to be taken to the lab to be developed.  It is amazing how many things have changed in how we run our day to day lives. (1981, 304 p.)