Aha! Still batting a thousand in the review department. From the Denver Post:
"The Famous Flower of Serving Men," by Deborah Grabien (St. Martin's Minotaur, 213 pages, $22.95)
When British director-producer Penny Wintercroft-Hawkes is bequeathed a London theater by a French aunt she scarcely knew, as well as the funds to renovate it, she is elated, as it will give her acting company a permanent base and a chance to branch out a bit. Of course, there turns out to be a catch: The theater is inhabited by a vengeful ghost from medieval times determined to right some ancient wrongs. Penny and her boyfriend, folksinger Ringan Laine, realize they have to lay this desperate spirit to rest before they can get on with their lives, and they set out to learn exactly who their ghost is and what her sad history might have been.
The history that Penny turns up goes back to the Peasants' Rebellion of 1381, an event that predated the Victorian-era theater by centuries. But the building stands on the former site of a prison in which inmates were burned alive during the fire set by the peasants, and not only the theater but the whole neighborhood is still haunted by that terrible event. The story is nicely creepy, with the darkness balanced by its cheery portrait of bright, talented young urbanites.