"Ghosts" is basically everything you could look for in a detective story. It has a plot full of confusion. Keeps names simple. Keeps the characters simple. It also keeps the background simple. It also throws the reader right into the thick of things. But in the end the whole plan turns out to be a farce. The story the reader thought they had entered into at first is just a mask for the real plot. It turns out that it is actually not a detective story, but a story about obsession. So by the time the reader realizes it, it's already too late. The plot of the book trapped not only the main character, but also the reader. In a way, the reader is easily comparable to the protagonist. The bait of the trap is the simplicity of the opening that makes the reader feel as if the book is completely honest with them, just as Blue thought with White. It introduces you to all the important characters right away with "First of all there's Blue. Then there's White, and then there's Black, and before the beginning there's Brown." The writer basically told you that "these are all the characters you will need to get to know." I have also given them simple names so that you do not confuse them.' He then set up the reader in the simplest way possible and the reader was completely engrossed right from the start. Blue is also given a simple task which he assumes will be a normal job, but has no idea that he has been trapped by Black's plan. Everyone knows that a simple trap is more reliable than a complex one because there are fewer things that can go wrong. Nothing seemed to go wrong in this part of the trap because the reader has no way to see the complete twist and reversal and neither did Blue. Once the writer has captured the reader's attention, he must disguise the trap. The simple bait keeps the reader's attention, but he doesn't want the reader to notice before he's made a good go of it.