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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787951103321

Autore

Cook M

Titolo

Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story [[electronic resource] ] : The Haunted Text / / by M. Cook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-137-29489-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Crime Files

Classificazione

FIC031000FIC050000

Disciplina

809.3/872

Soggetti

Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Detecting the Ghost; 2 Decoding the Past: Narrativeand Inquiry in 'The MusgraveRitual' and 'The Treasure ofAbbot Thomas'; 3 Out of the Past: Retributionand Conan Doyle's DoubleNarratives; 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 DicksonCarr's Locked Room; 7 Rebus's Edinburgh Palimpsest:The Spirits of the Place; 8 Susan Hill's Lost Hearts:The Woman in Black and theSerrailler Novels

9 Tony Hillerman's CulturalMetaphysicsConclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography and SuggestedReading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.