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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
"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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- PublisherHeadline Book Publishing Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0755332431
- ISBN 13 9780755332434
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition; First Printing. The author's first novel introducing Inspector Denis Lennon and Sergeant Molly Power investigating the murder of a Dublin High Court judge. Text block is tight with no loose or dog-eared pages but with very slight tanning to pageedges. Dust jacket shows no wear or tears. Dust jacket protected in clear mylar wrapper, bubble wrapped, boxed, and shipped with USPS Tracking (USA only). Signed on title page. Seller Inventory # 001889
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