Download or read book Ghosts and Skeletons written by Erin E. MacDonald and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines Ian Rankin's use of the gothic convention of the ghost in Black and Blue, Dead Souls, Set in Darkness, and "The Very Last Drop." In these works, ghosts and skeletons are used as metaphors for Detective Inspector John Rebus's guilt over past mistakes and for the dark past of his home city, Edinburgh. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 30, Issue 2.