Kate Summerscale: The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 [2021] paperback Condition:Good Detective Ben is a glorious

Detective Ben is a glorious adventure

Defying the precedent of centuries

believed in many rival gods and often showed a marked ingratitude towards their oddball ruler in Vienna

or corrupting the models of national representation fostered by the modernity of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

even the promise of the future

Kate Summerscale: The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 [2021] paperback Condition:Good Detective Ben is a gloriousSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A page turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERS London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor a Jewish Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research begins to investigate.