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

• Autore: Cook M
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2014.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3/872
• Soggetto topico: Fiction
• Classificazione: FIC031000FIC050000
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story
• ISBN: 1-137-29489-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787951103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Crime Files