The Death of a Joyce Scholar: A Peter McGarr Mystery - Hardcover

Gill, Bartholomew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688087132 ISBN 13: 9780688087135

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1989

Synopsis

Chief Inspector Peter McGarr immerses himself in the text of James Joyce's "Ulysses" to retrace the steps of both murderer and victim in the case of Joyce scholar Kevin Coyle's Bloomsday murder

About this title

About the Author:

Bartholomew Gill authored 15 Peter McGarr mysteries, among them The Death of an Irish Lover, The Death of an Irish Tinker, and the Edgar Award nominee The Death of a Joyce Scholar. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Gill wrote as Mark McGarrity for the Star-Ledger. He died in 2002.

From Publishers Weekly:

Irish author Gill captures the reader's full attention with the humor and inventiveness of the eighth adventure featuring Chief Inspector Peter McGarr of the Dublin police. Trinity College professor Kevin Coyle is found fatally stabbed after leading Joyce devotees on the annual Bloomsday tour, in the figurative footsteps of Stephen Daedalus and Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. McGarr learns that Coyle had been resented for his success at Trinity College and despised for his "profoundly working-class" background. The dead man's wife, Katie, names two academics as the victim's bitter rivals, but they are only two suspects in a case that offers a mass of conflicting evidence and alibis more inventive than plausible. To McGarr's amazement, Katie Coyle's "sisters"--feminist supporters--deceive rather than help the widow, but their posturing, by contrast, gains respect for "Rut'ie" Bresnahan, the woman on McGarr's squad, and a true feminist. After helping to catch the guilty, she has the last word, echoing Molly Bloom: " . . . it'd be much better for the world to be governed by the women . . . " BOMC alternate.
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About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0688087132
• ISBN 13: 9780688087135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 331