Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Michael Cook

   Pages 1-12

3. Detecting the Ghost

   • Michael Cook

   Pages 13-34

4. Decoding the Past: Narrative and Inquiry in ‘The Musgrave Ritual’ and ‘The Treasure of Abbot Thomas’

   • Michael Cook

   Pages 35-51

5. Out of the Past: Retribution and Conan Doyle’s Double Narratives

   • Michael Cook

   Pages 52-69

6. ‘That Forbidding Moor’: The Hound of the Baskervilles, a Ghost Story?

   • Michael Cook

   Pages 70-88

7. Agatha Christie’s Harlequinade: The ‘Bi-Part’ Soul of the Detective

   • Michael Cook

   Pages 89-107

8. Golden Age Gothic: John Dickson Carr’s Locked Room

   • Michael Cook

   Pages 108-126

9. Rebus’s Edinburgh Palimpsest: The Spirits of the Place

   • Michael Cook

   Pages 127-145

10. Susan Hill’s Lost Hearts: The Woman in Black and the Serrailler Novels

    • Michael Cook

    Pages 146-164

11. Tony Hillerman’s Cultural Metaphysics

    • Michael Cook

    Pages 165-178

12. Conclusion

    • Michael Cook

    Pages 179-188

13. Back Matter

    Pages 189-223

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Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is a lively series of case studies celebrating the close relationship between detective fiction and the ghost story. It features many of the most famous authors from both genres including Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, M. R. James and Tony Hillerman.

• Detective fiction
• Ghosts
• Conan Doyle
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• detective fiction
• fiction
• novel

Michael Cook is a freelance writer based in Devon, UK. A former National Trust Director, he holds a PhD in English from the University of Bristol. His previous publications include Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction: The Locked Room Mystery (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), the first full length critique of the Locked Room Mystery; Detective Fiction and The Ghost Story is his second book.

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