Irish Gilt: A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame - Hardcover

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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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In McInerney's ninth Notre Dame mystery (after 2004's Green Thumb), professor Roger Knight and his detective brother, Philip, seek the missing diaries of Fr. John Zahn, an almost forgotten 19th-century theologian, which purport to shed light on the search for El Dorado. Their investigation takes a deadly turn after the murder of an alumnus on campus. Rare book dealers, academic curmudgeons and others with conflicting loyalties and assorted agendas enliven a sleuthing exercise short on suspense and imagination. (Oct.)
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