A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone calls — as well as a visit from Detective Inspector Pascoe — in a novella that pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe.

A female journalist faces skepticism from the police when she reports an assault, and finds she may have to confront the attacker herself.

A family man wonders what sort of trouble the previous occupants of his new house were mixed up in — and finds some clues that were left behind in the move.

These stories — and four more — take us on a tour of the shadowy corners of Yorkshire, England, from a stormy churchyard to a gloomy attic, with tales of lust, greed, envy, and, of course, murder.

Pascoe’s Ghost
The Trunk in the Attic
The Rio de Janeiro Paper
Threatened Species
Snowball
Exit Line
Dalziel’s Ghost