Brief Candles

I read this book (with this dust jacket!) when I was a kid (it was in my mother's pile of books from the public library in East Lansing, Michigan), and have been trying to recall the author's name for over half a century. It's part of a quartet of ghost stories, three featuring the Latimers¹ and their monkey, and one concerning a German aristocrat² whose castle has been invaded by film makers. Rue Morgue Press has reissued several of the Manning Coles books, including these, all in the same vein and genre as Thorne Smith's Topper books³ (or vice-versa).

¹Brief Candles, Happy Returns, Come and Go (Rue Morgue Press)
²The Far Traveller (Rue Morgue Press)
³Topper, Topper Takes a Trip (Modern Library)