Murder in a Cathedral
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David Elworthy, the gentle and politically innocent new bishop, is distraught at the prospect of warfare between the factions; contentious issues include the camp lady chapel and the gay memorial under construction in the deanery garden.
Desperate for help, Elworthy cries on the shoulder of his old friend, the redoubtable Baroness Troutbeck, who forces her unofficial troubleshooter, Robert Amiss, to move into the bishop's palace.
Amiss, Troutbeck and the cat Plutarch address themselves in their various ways to the bishop's problems, which very soon include a clerical corpse in the cathedral. Is it suicide? Or is it murder? And who is likely to be next?
John L. Casti
Ruth Dudley Edwards was born in Dublin and now lives in London. A historian and prize-winning biographer, her most recent non-fiction includes the authorized history of The Economist, a portrait of the British Foreign Office, written with its co-operation, and ‘The Faithful Tribe’, a portrait of the Orange Order. Three of her satirical crime novels featuring Baroness Troutbeck have been short-listed for awards from the Crime Writers’ Association.
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Reviews for Murder in a Cathedral
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marvelously funny and brilliantly read by Bill Wallis. If you offend easily, skip it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a remarkably fun read. Between the gay high-church canons and the "happy-clappy" evangelical cathedral dean and his LOVELY fundamentalist wife and the distracted, academic, and often clueless Bishop, our protagonist, Robert Amiss, has his hands full. And that's before we add in the Baroness...An odd mystery. No one dies until more than halfway through the book. But then the bodies fall hard and fast.Excellent summer reading; I'll be looking for other books in this series.