About the Author:
Andrew Nugent lives in Ireland and is a former lawyer who now, as a monk of the order of St. Benedict, is the chief officer of a boys' school in Limerick. Although The Four Courts Murder is his first book of fiction, he has published works of nonfiction. He is finishing a second mystery (still set in Dublin but very different otherwise) about immigrants from Africa, where he lived doing missionary work for a number of years.
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"Molly, have you ever done an absolutely classic murder case?"
"I don't know. What is an absolutely classic murder case?"
"You know. The duke of wherever found dead in the library, by his faithful footman, of course, Oriental dagger peeping out between the shoulder blades, so on."
Sergeant Molly Power gazed disapprovingly at Inspector Denis Lennon. "Denis, have you been reading comics again?"
"No comic, Molly, just fact stranger than fiction. Not a duke, a High Court judge. Not in the library, in his Lordship's chambers in the Four Courts. And . . . it was not a knife in the back. That, too, was poetic license. He was strangled."
"Denis, how can you throttle a judge in the middle of the Four Courts?"
"No better place. Big thick walls, solid mahogany doors, it's designer-made for throttling judges."
Copyright 2005 by Andrew Nugent
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