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.

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

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.