Sins of the Fathers: An Anthology of Clerical Crime - Hardcover
This collection of tales of crime, mystery and detection, involve every one of the seven deadly sins, committed by or against the clergy. Murder, suicide, exorcism, lust, hidden treasure, ghosts - all are portrayed by writers as diverse as Le Fanu, Chesterton, Chekhov, E.F. Benson, and Saki.
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About the Author:
Mark Bryant was born in Dorset and is a philosophy graduate of London University. He also has a PhD in history from the University of Kent. After a number of years in book publishing he turned freelance, working as an editor, writer and exhibition curator. He is the author of several books -- including Dictionary of Riddles (Special Commendation in Best Specialist Reference Book Awards 1990), Literary Hymns, Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists 1730-1980 (with S. Heneage) and Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists. He lives in south-west London.
From Kirkus Reviews:
Clerical crime, not clerical detection--so don't expect to see Father Dowling or Blackie Ryan. (Father Brown squeezes in via a story featuring a killer curate.) The tone of the 14 stories ranges from troubled mysticism (Chekhov) to snippy satire (Saki), with Maupassant and Sherwood Anderson stoking the fires of lust and M.R. James and Arthur Gray probing Latin manuscripts for clues to clerical treasures. And, as this list of authors suggests, these reprints are gleaned not only from the old (Agatha Christie, R.H. Barham, J.S. Fletcher, E.F. Benson, John Galsworthy) but from the ancient (Conan Doyle, Sheridan Le Fanu). The mild principal novelty of most entries seems to be priestly involvement in crime. Just the gift for parish priests who find Andrew Greeley a little too threatening. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherTrafalgar Square
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 057506384X
- ISBN 13 9780575063846
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages247
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