This nonfiction book covers a good deal of the history of Las Vegas from its earliest settlers to the glitz and glamour of today's gambling mecca. Each short chapter reports on strange sightings and sounds that have occured in casinos, houses, hotels and even schools and playgrounds. Much of it is nothing more than urban legend and many of the tales are quite vague. I suppose it would be nice to think that Liberace still visits his piano bar, that Elvis has not left the building, and that the Rat Pack still "lives it up" on stage. There are several companies that offer "Haunted Las Vegas" tours so I would imagine that keeping the ghost stories alive can only help their business. On the whole, there was nothing to convince the reader one way or another about the existence of spirits but the snippets of Nevada history were interesting. ( )