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Synopsis
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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About the Author
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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Irish Gilt
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Thorndike Pr (edition ), 2006
ISBN 10: 0786282223
ISBN 13: 9780786282227
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