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Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story : The Haunted Text.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Crime Files SeriesPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (232 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137294890
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Detective Fiction and the Ghost StoryLOC classification:
  • PN3311-3503
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Detecting the Ghost -- 2 Decoding the Past: Narrativeand Inquiry in 'The MusgraveRitual' and 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' -- 3 Out of the Past: Retributionand 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 Golden Age Gothic: John Dickson Carr's Locked Room -- 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 -- Select Bibliography and Suggested Reading.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Detecting the Ghost -- 2 Decoding the Past: Narrativeand Inquiry in 'The MusgraveRitual' and 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' -- 3 Out of the Past: Retributionand 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 Golden Age Gothic: John Dickson Carr's Locked Room -- 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 -- Select Bibliography and Suggested Reading.

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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