The Death of a Joyce Scholar - Softcover

Gill, Bartholomew

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9780749003722: The Death of a Joyce Scholar

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ISBN 10: 0749003723 ISBN 13: 9780749003722

Publisher: Allison & Busby 31/08/1998, 1999

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Dublin’s most eminent Joyce scholar, Kevin Coyle, is stabbed through the heart near Glasnevin Cemetery. His wife has him at home in bed – ‘but he’s going off in the heat...’ So she sends for Dublin’s most eminent policeman, Inspector Peter McGarr of the Garda. Why did he die, where did he dies, and where is his prized possession – a hat originally worn by James Joyce? The answers, he is told, are to found in Ulysses – but McGarr prefers a more orthodox channel...

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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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