Murder in a Cathedral (G. K. Hall Mystery) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Ruth Dudley Edwards (Author)

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Publication Date: October 1997 | Series: G. K. Hall Mystery

MysteryLarge Print EditionStrapped for cash, Robert Amiss lets the Baroness Jack Troutbeck persuade him to take a job with her friend Canon Flubert. Too late, Amiss realizes that hes stumbled into a maelstrom of scandal. The church is in an uproar over the appointment of the new dean, Norm Cooper, a fundamentalist with a fanatical wife. Cooper spells doom for the left of centers who have ruled the church for decades. So when the dean turns up dead, theres no shortage of suspects. Amiss took the job against his better judgment never suspecting that it would lead him into countless teeth-grinding adventures on a search for a killer.

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Amazon.com Review

Baroness Troutbeck--"Jack" to her friends--is the hard-drinking, hard-living lady of "a certain age" who stars in Ruth Dudley Edward's series of comic mysteries. In Murder in a Cathedral, the seventh installment, Jack persuades her impecunious friend Robert Amiss to take a job with her pal Canon Flubert, inadvertently sending him into a firestorm of ecclesiastical scandal: in a church run by gay priests, witches, and New Age enthusiasts, the appointment of a fundamentalist dean is anathema. When the dean turns up dead, everyone's a suspect. Bad enough that Amiss has to cope with the scandal, but soon he also has the Baroness on his hands in a madcap search for the Cathedral killer. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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The new bishop of Westonbury Cathedral, an institution long dominated by a cadre of High-Church gays, wishes to avoid ugly confrontation when an intolerant new American dean arrives. The bishop confides in Baroness Troutbeck, who sends series sleuth Robert Amiss (e.g., Ten Lords a-Leaping, LJ 7/96) to the rescue?but not in time to prevent murder. An appealing and humorous series.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 326 pages
• Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078388284X
• ISBN-13: 978-0783882840
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,212,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, especially for followers of the series, June 15, 1997

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This review is from: Murder in a Cathedral (Hardcover)

Robert Amiss only lives up to his surname when he heeds the advice
of his friend Baroness Jack Troutbeck. After all the misadventures
that Jack gets him into he wonders why he still listens to her. This
time around, she persuades (perhaps bullies is a more apt description)
a near broke Robert to accept a job accompanying her when she visits
Westonbury Cathedral. He should have known that the easiest job in the
world would turn int
o the job from hell if Jack is involved.
..... It seems that the locale, the Westonbury Cathedral, is imbued with
a massive controversy that threatens to rip the Church of England in
half with its worst feud since Henry's days. The new dean is an
American fundamentalist who wants to end all the new age gurus that
have entered the church. His ideas split the church into two factions
who turn violent and deadly, including killing the new dean. Robert
and Jack find themselves flooded with numerous suspects as they try to
uncover the identity of the killer. However, in Robert's mind, it is
Jack's friendship with everyone in the universe and her opinion on
everything under the universe that is driving him away from the church.
..... The Robert Amiss tales are superb satires that laugh at every
potential politically correct thing imaginable. However, it must be
understood that MURDER IN A CATHEDRAL is not for everyone. Some readers
will laugh at the antics of Jack, while others will feel that she is an
abrasive SOB. The who-done-it is fun, but whether the reader enjoys
Jack's pontificating on everything right and wrong with the C O E (the
Church of England not the Corps of Engineers) depends on whether they
love a British satire that overwhelms the mystery.

......Harriet Klausner