Publisher, Blackstone Audio (November 2001)

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Thorne Smith was a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee. Topper , his best-known work, is the hilarious, ribald comedy on which the movie (starring Cary Grant) and hit television show were based.

It all begins when Cosmo Topper, a law-abiding, mild-mannered bank manager, decides to buy a secondhand car, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of its previous owner—the reckless, feckless, frivolous couple who met their untimely demise when the car careened into an oak tree. The capricious ghosts, George and Marion Kerby, make it their mission to rescue Topper from the drab "summer of suburban Sundays" that is his life. With their ectoplasmic reappearances and whimsically insane actions designed to disturb the inhibited banker’s staid life, they leave Topper, and anyone else who crosses their path, in a whirlwind of discomfiture and delight.