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N.Y.: Dodd, Mead, 1960. near fine in dj, rubbed and soiled at rear, a few cover creases. Father Joseph Bredder title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Soho, 2000. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Both a BARRY and DILYS Award Nominee. "Wielding the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement he recently won from the British Crime Writers, Lovesey slashes his way through the overgrown shrubbery of the rural British cozy. The result is an extremely clever, exquisitely written story of a murderous rector who manages to earn a great deal of our sympathy while dramatically whittling down his flock in the Wiltshire village of Foxford. "If you knew Marcus Glastonbury, you would not expect him to appreciate anything out of the ordinary," Lovesey tells us right away about the local bishop, who comes to chastise the handsome young rector for cooking the books at his last parish. And indeed Bishop Glastonbury is no match for the Reverend Otis Joy a wickedly intelligent serial killer (the bishop becomes his second victim, framed to look like a… Leer más

New York: St. Martin's, 1984. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light soiling at page edges else near fine in dust jacket light rubbing along edges. . Bishop Paul Burdock of Washington, D.C. befriends the young daughter of a murdered call girl, and his search for the child's long-lost father becomes a hunt for a killer among Washington's powerful political elite. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1993. Book club edition, fine in dust jacket. light soiling at page edges else near fine, decorated wraps. Advance uncorrected proof. A Father Dowling title. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book Club.

St. Martin's, 1993. 1st ed, light soiling at page edges else near fine, decorated wraps. Advance uncorrected proof. A Father Dowling title. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1986. 1st ed., fine, uncorrected proof in wraps. Author's first book takes place at Ambelhurst, a big monastic school. Now every aspect of the vast institution -- monks, boys, lay masters, household staff, even visiting parents -- comes under the scrutiny of Inspector Evan Morgan, a devout Wesleyan Methodist.. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The decaying abbey of San Redempto, standing in the shadows of the Vatican, has been forgotten by the Church. However, six of the seven paintigs of martyrs are stolen from its walls and the seventh--depicting the martydom of St. Agatha-- is identified as a long-lost tresaure most likely by Poussin. With these events comes the kind of attention that many have been working for years to avoid.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. 1st edition, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Based on the historical "Wamderings of Friar Felix Fabri" . Set in 1483, and compared to Eco's" Name of the Rose". "Widely varied notions of faith and mission, from the conventional to the bizarre, color this intriguing historical thriller about a 15th-century pilgrimage from Germany to Mt. Sinai. The narrative takes the form of a journal kept by Dominican Father Felix Fabri, beginning at sea in 1483. Felix seeks to visit the relics of his spiritual wife, St. Katherine of Alexandria, on whom he has developed a fixation that might strike contemporary readers as not being entirely in keeping with his vows?though such eroticized spirituality was not uncommon at the time. As pieces of Katherine's body disappear from churches along his party's route, Felix faces a… Leer más

NY: St. Martin, 1993. 1st edition, February 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. WINNER of the 1991 Best First Private Eye Novel Contest co-sponsored by St. Martin's Press, Macmillan London, and the Private Eye Writers of America, A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe introduces a most unusual private investigator. Sister Cecile is an heiress whose father, disapproving of her vocation, left his fortune to her on the condition it not be spent for religious purposes. Cecile circumvents this by putting her investigative talents to work as a licensed private investigator, using her credit cards in the course of her work and then donating the fees to her Boston convent. Her latest case has her protecting the pregnant eighteen-year-old daughter of aspiring political candidate Abe Hersey. Jane Hersey is on the run from Martin Moon, the father of the baby and a vicious blackmailer who wants his secrets to remain secret.… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket, one small crease. The second Sister Fidelma mystery. Wighard, archbishop designate of Canterbury, has been discovered garotted in his chambers in the Lateran Palace in Rome in the autumn of AD664. Sister Fidelma investigates. Set in early medieval Ireland. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the front free endpaper. Authors first book. "Another clerical snoop takes to amateur sleuthing in this stylish debut from a poet and graduate of Harvard Divinity School who once considered becoming an Episcopal priest. Blake's heroine, Lily Connor, is a "tentmaker"Aan ordained priest who works outside the church. Lily is a spiritual nomad who, as the novel begins, has been assigned to serve as interim priest at Boston's St. Mary of the Garden Episcopal Church after the sudden death of the church's long-time spiritual head, Father Fred Barnes. Lily's faith and authority are challenged immediately: the parishioners seem disinterested in her attempts to help them adjust to Barnes's death; the vestry members are downright hostile to her. When the sexton… Leer más

Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Crime Club Doubleday, 1983. Author's 1st book. Page edges lightly soiled, dj lightly rubbed. Brother Anselm is dead, and it's not the plague -- it's murder. who would want to kill a monk in a Cistercian monastary in 1379?. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribner, 2001. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. It begins with a Roman Catholic priest being suspended after he's accused of sexual abuse and ends with murder.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Cambridge, UK: Galileo Publishers, 2022. 1st paperback printing, thus. [Originally published by Hodder, hc, 1949]. Fine, as new copy of this trade paperback. The lost art of brass rubbing, crooked antiques dealers, and smuggling all figure in this tale of an unidentified man found naked and ritually murdered on the altar in a Cornish church. Inspector Cam, on vacation with his family, is asked to help out the local police in this superbly plotted and literary mystery novel. Joan Cockin has created a perfect microcosm of the Cornish village in Villainy at Vespers (1949) and delights in populating the town of Trevelley with all manner of eccentric locals and oddball tourists. Leading the investigation is a nearly incompetent and irascible local policeman named Honeywether who enlists the help of Cam, though it is mostly the promise of free beer that decides the vacationing copper to join the investigation. Together Cam and Honeywether uncover the identity of the naked corpse and unravel a web of… Leer más