Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story: The Haunted Text
The Haunted Text
Published on 19. August 2014
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Hardback
223 pages
978-1-137-29488-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
Author Preface Introduction 1. Detecting the Ghost 2. Decoding the Past: Narrative and Inquiry in 'The Musgrave Ritual' and 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' 3. Out of the Past: Retribution and Conan Doyle's Double Narratives 4. '... That Forbidding Moor': The Hound of the Baskervilles , a Ghost Story? 5. Agatha Christie's Harlequinade : The 'Bi-Part' Soul of the Detective 6. John Dickson Carr's Golden Age Gothic: The Locked Room Mystery and the Ghost Story 7. Rebus's Edinburgh Palimpsest: The Spirits of the Place 8. Susan Hill's Lost Hearts: The Woman in Black and the Serrailler Novels 9. Tony Hillerman's Cultural Metaphysics Conclusion Notes to Chapters Select Bibliography Index