Murder Most Catholic: Divine Tales of Profane Crimes
Unholy crimes! Divine solutions!
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. 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
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Book details
- Author
- Ralph McInerny
- Imprint
- Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Fiction › Thrillers
- Topics
- mystery short stories · Catholic clergy detectives · crime anthology · amateur sleuths · historical mysteries · religious fiction · clerical crime solving
- ISBN-13
- 9781581822601 (Paperback)9781630263843 (Hardcover)
About the author
RALPH MATTHEW McINERNY was an American author, philosopher, and professor who authored more than one hundred works spanning philosophy, fiction, and journalism, best known for creating the Father Dowling mystery series, later adapted into a television show. He also wrote the Sister Mary Teresa and Andrew Broom mystery series.
McInerny received the Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award and served as a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. He held the Michael P. Grace Professorship of Medieval Studies and was director emeritus of the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame, where he taught for over forty years. He held degrees from St. Paul Seminary, the University of Minnesota, and Université Laval.
McInerny died on January 29, 2010.