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Murther and Walking Spirits Murther and Walking Spirits Murther and Walking Spirits, first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1991, is a novel by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. "Murther and Walking Spirits" is, in a way, another ghost story, a genre Davies visited in his short story collection "High Spirits" (1982). In the very first sentence of the novel, "Gil" Gilmartin, the protagonist and narrator, is a film critic who comes home to find his attractive wife having an affair with a nerdy coworker, who strikes him with a walking stick in fear, causing his death. His ghost then attends a strange film festival.