For some reason, this book arrived before Barnabas Collins Vs. the Warlock. This is odd, because I got a notice from Amazon that book 11 was supposed to arrive on Friday or Saturday of last week.
I've been listening to them all. I'm not sure if I'm imagining it, but KLS seems to be putting a bit more gusto into The Phantom and Barnabas Collins. That book is the first of 3 to feature Maggie as the heroine. I'm only on Chapter One, but it seemed to me that she was a bit more inspired by that novel.
I'm enjoying the books for what they are, pulp quality reinterpretations of DS. They are nostalgic, since the books essentially were my first real introduction to DS. I'd stolen a few glimpses of some isolated scenes in the '60s, but I had no meaningful exposure to the series.