Irish Gilt: A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame - Hardcover

McInerny, Ralph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312336888 ISBN 13: 9780312336882

Verlag: Minotaur Books, 2005

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When South Bend, Indiana, Detective Phil Knight meets Boris Henry, an enthusiast of the historic Father John Zahm, a Notre Dame priest who was once involved in theoretical disputes during the 19th century, he wants to introduce Boris to his brother, Notre Dame's Professor Roger Knight, who shares a passion for this legendary man. As expected Boris and Roger have much to discuss. But then some of Boris's collection of rare Zahm artifacts go missing and Boris turns up dead, and the Knight brothers team up to uncover the truth behind the murder in Irish Gilt, an absorbing addition to this series by the author of the beloved Father Dowling mysteries.

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RALPH MCINERNY is also the author of the Father Dowling series, and has taught for over forty years at Notre Dame.

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Father John Zahm, a nineteenth-century Notre Dame priest and scholar, is of particular interest to corpulent professor Roger Knight. Boris Henry, a Notre Dame alum who dissipated his family fortune at the gaming tables, has come into possession of a significant cache of Zahm writings that he is willing to sell to the university should it decide to memorialize the iconoclastic scholar. The stakes escalate quickly when Zahm's diary is stolen from Henry, and another alum, Xavier Kittock, who was doing research on Zahm in the university archives, is found murdered on campus. The local police do their best, but Professor Knight and his private--investigator brother, Phillip, are better able to unearth arcane motives from the university community. McInerny, author of the Father Dowling novels as well as this series about the Knight brothers, entertainingly combines elements of the Nero Wolfe mysteries with the modern police procedural, all while poking fun at the insular, self-important world of academia. McInerny has taught at Notre Dame for 40 years. Perhaps he has a PhD in whodunnitry. Wes Lukowsky
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In McInerney's ninth Notre Dame mystery (after 2004's Green Thumb), professor Roger Knight and his detective brother, Philip, seek the missing diaries of Fr. John Zahn, an almost forgotten 19th-century theologian, which purport to shed light on the search for El Dorado. Their investigation takes a deadly turn after the murder of an alumnus on campus. Rare book dealers, academic curmudgeons and others with conflicting loyalties and assorted agendas enliven a sleuthing exercise short on suspense and imagination. (Oct.)
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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Minotaur Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312336888
• ISBN 13: 9780312336882
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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