The most persistent spirit haunting the book takes the form of a question that at first appears innocuous, purely rhetorical: "How can you make sense of the beginning unless you know the ending?" Given that the speaker is a writer of detective stories - the eponymous Arthur is, as it happens, Conan Doyle - this seems a perfectly sensible utterance: a decisive rebuke to anyone who might imagine that a mystery story could be constructed otherwise. LIKE a proper English country house, Julian Barnes's "Arthur and George" is large and solidly built and has ghosts.
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