Ralph McInerny

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Arkansas

Judas Priest by Ralph McInerny released on Sep 23, 1994 is available now for purchase.

Judas Priest

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Ohio

When the college chancellor has to resign after he is arrested for driving drunk on the way home from a massage parlor, philosophy professor Matthew Rogerson is faced with the search committee to hire a new chancellor--a search that plumbs academic infighting, backstabbing, and even murder--all the while trying to avoid having himself named to the post.

The Search Committee

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Illinois

An astounding miracle. Two vicious murders. A secret that could change the world. The Rosary Chronicles begin. Retired CIA operative Vincent Traeger spent years working undercover in Rome. But when the Vatican’s Secretary of State is brutally murdered along with a prefect of the Vatican Library, Traeger must not only solve the murders, but fight an unseen enemy and navigate a treacherous maze through history, faith, and his own past if he is ever to discover the astonishing truth.

The Third Revelation

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oklahoma

Father Dowling is a dedicated parish priest who happens to have a knack for unraveling the mysteries of the real world as well as those of heaven, but the latest puzzle to catch his attention---the disappearance of Wallace Flanagan---doesn’t seem to be a mystery so much as a dirty little secret. By all appearances, Flanagan, the heir to a lucrative concrete business, skipped town with his mistress more than ten years ago, although no one talks about that out of respect for his abandoned wife. But appearances go right out the window when his mangled---and recently live---body is found wedged into one of his father’s cement mixers.

If Flanagan’s unexpected return and immediate death aren’t enough to shake a few skeletons from their closets, childhood friends and lifelong enemies have started trickling home to Fox River, Illinouis, a town outside of Chicago. All of them had a stake in his disappearance, but which one would murder a man who was already all but dead? And would kill again to keep a dead man’s secrets?

A collision between the past and present dislodges some hard and hidden truths that Father Dowling must uncover if he’s going to catch a killer in Ralph McInerny’s The Widow’s Mate, an absorbing and suspenseful mystery that is sure to please Father Dowling’s many fans.

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A Father Dowling Mystery 

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Heavyweight Notre Dame professor Roger Knight and his p.i. brother Philip investigate a baffling puzzle when some extremely rare literary documents go missing in the fifth installment of this smart academic mystery series. Complicating matters for the brothers are the impending nuptials of some dear friends, Larry Morton and Nancy Beatty, which hit a snag. When Larry was an undergraduate at Notre Dame he made a prudent but overly optimistic reservation to marry his freshman sweetheart, Dolores Torre, in the popular campus rectory six years in the distant future. Their relationship didn't last, and now Larry wants to use the reservation to marry Nancy. Unfortunately, his old girlfriend Dolores has a similar plan.

When both Larry and Dolores try to claim the forgotten reservation on the appointed date for their very separate marriages, pandemonium ensues. Dolores's new fiance, Dudley, is a man with a troubling secret past that may come back to haunt all of them. When a woman winds up strangled to death, both weddings are suddenly on hold until everyone can figure out what's going on. What is Dudley's connection with the missing documents, and how could such a white-collar, academic crime lead to a grisly murder? Between the two of them, Roger and Phil Knight can handle many tough questions-but this particular puzzle is bound to prove quite a challenge in this intelligent, witty mystery from one of the genre's masters.


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A Novel

The creator of the beloved Father Dowling Mysteries introduces a new series, featuring Detective Egidio Manfredi, a 64-year-old detective on the Fort Elbow police force. Facing mandatory retirement in one year, Manfredi is wondering if he shouldn't have retired long ago for a job at some mall ogling young matrons. When he's called upon to reopen an unsolved case, he isn't particularly excited. First, it happened thirty years ago. Second, no one is certain there actually was a crime ...

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Kentucky

The 16th mystery to feature Roger Dowling, the insightful and understanding priest of Fox River, Illinois. When a wealthy dowager and member of Dowling's parish suddenly dies, it becomes clear to Dowling that neither the old woman's life nor her death was ordinary. Characterizations are excellent, and Dowling's logic flawless.--Chicago Tribune.

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Michigan

Abracadaver (Large Print)

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"Father Roger Dowling acquires a rare treasure: two prime-location tickets to the Notre Dame vs. USC football game, the gift of an old friend in the Church. But the tickets come with a catch, for at Notre Dame he is expected to attend a conference on American annulment practices - a meeting with the powerful Cardinal Hildebrand, which will tear Dowling from the welcome obscurity of his parish in Fox River, Illinois." "The eroding sanctity of a marriage vow made before God underlies the gripping plot of A Cardinal Offense, the seventeenth novel to feature Father Dowling and the first set at Notre Dame."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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New Hampshire

As private detective Philip Knight and his brother Roger, a Catholic Studies professor, probe a series of threatening letters targeting Notre Dame, the campus is rocked by an explosion and the brothers search for an unknown villain.

The Letter Killeth

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In the latest installment of Ralph McInerny's beloved series, Father Dowling is caught in the middle of a dispute between former radio celebrity Jack Gallagher and Austin Rooney over one woman's affections.

Meanwhile, Jack is the prime suspect in the death of another woman, Agatha Rossner, a lawyer better known as a seductress than a litigator. The Fox River police once again must turn to Father Dowling for help in sorting out this intricate tale of murderous affairs.


Triple Pursuit

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New York

Sham Rock

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California

Savings and Loan 

Frigor Mortis

Alaska

Father Dowling

Desert Sinner by Ralph McInerny released on Oct 25, 1994 is available now for purchase.

Desert Sinner

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Florida

A Father Dowling Mystery

The Widow's Mate

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Texas

Father Dowling is used to unsolicited knocks on the rectory door, having done more than his share of counseling and assisting in delicate situations during his long career. So when Eleanor Wygant comes to visit Father Dowling he receives her graciously, though she is a stranger. As it turns out, members of her family are longtime parishioners of St. Hillary's, and it soon becomes clear that with family trouble brewing, Eleanor doesn't know where else to turn.

When she enlists Father Dowling's help in persuading her niece Jessica to scrap the tell-all family novel she is writing and concentrate on more earthly pursuits, the venerable priest has little idea how enmeshed he is about to become in the family's edgy interrelations. For in recent years, the family has had its share of melodrama, including a philandering patriarch, a son who left the priesthood to take up with an ex-nun, and an underachieving academic, and it's up to Dowling to piece together their shared history in the hopes of putting their demons-and a vicious, previously unknown murder-to rest.

In the hands of Ralph McInerny, one of mystery fiction's most beloved authors, Last Things is as delightful as his legions of fans have come to expect from the charming Father Dowling series.


Last Things

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When an inept assassin accidentally kills his employer, Midwestern lawyer Andrew Broom defends the bereaved lover, Agnes Walz, not only on a conspiracy charge but also against her still-living and now-vengeful husband

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