Murder Most Catholic: Divine Tales of Profane Crimes - Hardcover

McInerny, Ralph M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1630263842 ISBN 13: 9781630263843

Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

The murder mysteries that make up this unusual anthology all have one thing in common: the hero or heroine who solves the crime is a Catholic cleric. Perhaps that should not be surprising, for since the time of G. K. Chesterton those who have explored stories with a religious belief or background have tended to place them in the Middle Ages. And during that time most Christians were in one way or another connected to the Catholic church. From Chesterton’s classic priest-turned-detective Father Brown to Peter Tremayne’s historical Celtic nun and lawyer, Sister Fidelma, religious men and women put aside their professional duties for a moment to take up an altogether different vocation for a short time―that of detective and solver of crimes unspeakable. The stories in this collection of Catholic clerical sleuthing includes:
"Whispers of the Dead" by Peter Tremayne · "Bless Me Father, For I Have Sinned" by Ed Gorman · "Death by Fire" by Anne Perry and Malachi Saxon · "The Arrow of Ice" by Edward D. Hoch · "The Rag and Bone Man" by Lillian Stewart Carl · "Divine Justice" by Charles Meyer · "Cemetery of the Innocents" by Stephen Dentinger · "Veronica’s Veil" by Monica Quill · "Lowly Death" by Margaret Frazer · "Ex Libris" by Kate Gallison · "A Clerical Error" by Michael Jecks · "Through a Glass, Darkly" by Kate Charles · "The Knight’s Confession" by P. C. Doherty · "The Shorn Lamb" by Ralph McInerny

About this title

About the Author

RALPH McINERNY is a prolific writer of mysteries, including three series—Father Dowling, Andrew Broome, and Sister Mary Teresa Dempsey. He also is director of the Jacques Maritain Center, professor of philosophy, and Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame. McInerny’s recent mysteries include Grave Undertakings (2000), Irish Tenure (1999), The Red Hat (1998), Luck of the Irish (1998), On This Rockne (1997), and Four on the Floor (1994).

From Publishers Weekly

Fourteen accounts of immoral deeds uncovered (and even sometimes committed) by moral people comprise the absorbing Murder Most Catholic: Divine Tales of Profane Crimes, edited by Ralph McInerny, author of the popular Father Dowling and Sister Mary Teresa Dempsey mystery series. About half are set in the Middle Ages, a time of rich fodder for writers who "wish to meld murder and the religious," while the remainder explore contemporary milieus and themes: in Stephen Dentinger's "Cemetery of the Innocents," a 15th-century danse macabre turns truly deadly; in Ed Gorman's "Bless Me Father for I Have Sinned," a priest at his 25th college reunion realizes that his lifetime of good works has failed to atone for a murder he committed in his youth.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1630263842
• ISBN 13: 9781630263843
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256