Murder in a Cathedral (Robert Amiss/BaronessJack Troutbeck Mysteries, 7)
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ISBN: 1590581342 / Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, March 2010
When Norman Cooper, the straightlaced new dean of Canon Flubert, turns up dead, Bishop David Elworthy is desperate for help and Robert Amiss and Baroness Troutbeck find themselves investigating radical gay priests, feminist witches, and evil cult members, all of whom had much to gain from Norm Cooper's demise. Reprint.
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"This blithe series puts itself on the side of the angels by merrily, and staunchly, subverting every tenet of political correctness."—The IndependentFor many years Westonbury Cathedral has been dominated by a clique of High Church gays, so when Norman Cooper, an austere, intolerant, happy-clappy evangelist, is appointed dean, there is shock, outrage and fear.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?
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