The Book of Kills (Roger and Philip Knight Mysteries Set at the Univ. of Notre Dame) - Softcover

McInerny, Ralph

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9780312979225: The Book of Kills (Roger and Philip Knight Mysteries Set at the Univ. of Notre Dame)

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ISBN 10: 0312979223 ISBN 13: 9780312979225

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2001

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A series of pranks prompts Notre Dame's administration to turn once again to brothers Roger and Philip Knight. They appear to be related to a eccentric scholar's claim that the land on which the university stands was stolen from the Indians. The pranks turn serious: at a football game against the FSU Seminoles, one stunt is aired on national TV, and the university president is kidnapped. But before the Knights can get to the root of these malicious acts, the scholar turns up dead, an Indian headdress wrapped around his bloody head.
All in all, it is a delicious installment in a wonderfully crafted series.

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About the Author:

Ralph McInerny, a winner of the Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award, is the author of over thirty books, including the popular Father Dowling mysteries, most recently Grave Undertakings and the Andrew Broome mysteries, most recently Heirs and Parents. He has taught for over forty years at the University of Notre Dame, where he is the director of the Jacques Maritain Center. He lives in South Bend, Indiana.

From Publishers Weekly:

Fans of academic whodunits will find much to chuckle over in this fourth Notre Dame mystery (On This Rockne, etc.) from the creator of Father Dowling, featuring the sleuthing Knight brothers, the hulking Roger and private detective Philip. A series of pranks, including the kidnapping of the chancellor, has alarmed the Notre Dame administration, and the Knight brothers get the call to investigate. The various shenanigans seem somehow related to the claim by a group of Native Americans that the land on which the famed university stands was stolen from them and should be returned. A longtime history graduate student, Orion Plant, has uncovered information in the course of his dissertation research that allegedly bolsters this claim. But when Plant turns up dead, the Knight brothers have to delve even deeper to discover who had the most compelling motive to murder him. Does Plant's long-delayed dissertation have anything to do with his death? Could his long-suffering wife, waitress Marcia Younger, have finally tired of his dallying with Professor Otto Ranke's daughter, Laverne, and done him in? And what about the unsolved murders of a number of Native Americans in South Bend years before? The Knights have to sniff down many trails in order to find the right answer. McInerny has fashioned another deft and mordantly witty excursion into the rarefied atmosphere of Notre Dame. (Sept.)
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