Murder in a Cathedral
Mystery Large Print Edition Strapped for cash, Robert Amiss lets the Baroness Jack Troutbeck persuade him to take a job with her friend Canon Flubert. Too late, Amiss realizes that he s stumbled into a maelstrom of scandal. The church is in an uproar over the appointment of the new dean, Norm...
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Mystery Large Print Edition Strapped for cash, Robert Amiss lets the Baroness Jack Troutbeck persuade him to take a job with her friend Canon Flubert. Too late, Amiss realizes that he s stumbled into a maelstrom of scandal. The church is in an uproar over the appointment of the new dean, Norm Cooper, a fundamentalist with a fanatical wife. Cooper spells doom for the left of centers who have ruled the church for decades. So when the dean turns up dead, there s no shortage of suspects. Amiss took the job against his better judgment never suspecting that it would lead him into countless teeth-grinding adventures on a search for a killer.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781590581346 (1590581342)
Publish date: November 1st 2004
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Pages no: 232
Edition language: English
Series: Robert Amiss Mystery (#7)
Edwards excels in skewering various British institutions and in this book she turns her sharp pen on the Church of England. Pretty standard plot (tensions between the high church curates and the newly appointed Dean who displays a rather fundamentalist streak) but the characters are all so over top...
Marvelously funny and brilliantly read by Bill Wallis. If you offend easily, skip it.