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