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, ...
One early morning during spring break, Detectives Phil Knight and Jimmie Stewart are enjoying a golf game at the University of Notre Dame when they find a man apparently suffering a heart attack on the green. They summon help and the man is rushed to the emergency room. But it's too late--the man...
When South Bend, Indiana, Detective Phil Knight meets Boris Henry, an enthusiast of the historic Father John Zahm, a Notre Dame priest who was once involved in theoretical disputes during the 19th century, he wants to introduce Boris to his brother, Notre Dame's Professor Roger Knight, who shares...
Once the college football season draws to a close for the Fighting Irish, there is little reason to ride out the winter in South Bend, Indiana. Those who can leave do, but P.I. Philip Knight stays on at Notre Dame when the university asks him to discreetly investigate a rash of threatening letter...
I had been looking forward to this book, and the whole series, because McInerny is the author of the Father Dowling books, and this series is set at Notre Dame. I LOVED the Fr. Dowling mysteries that were on TV in the 90s(?) and was really excited to read the actual stories behind them. This wasn...
When Fred Neville of the Notre Dame athletic department winds up dead under mysterious circumstances, amateur sleuth and academic Roger Knight, and his brother, Phil, a P.I., investigate the apparent murder. The trouble: no suspects. No suspects, that is, until the day of Fred's funeral, when sev...
Gregory Barrett, a classmate of Father Dowling’s, left the priesthood twenty-five years ago. Now, after all these years, a woman threatens to bring a multimillion-dollar suit against him, alleging he sexually exploited her when he was still a priest and she was sixteen. Barrett has no memory of h...
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. ...
Father Dowling, respected by all, is well-known for being willing to lend a helping hand whenever he can. So it's no surprise when Stanley Collins shows up at the St. Hilary rectory to confide in Father Dowling about the troubled marriage of one of the church's parishioners. Dowling promises to d...
With the Fighting Irish set to square off against Georgia Tech, Roger Knight, the rotund professor of Catholic studies, and his brother Philip, a semi-retired P.I., know that Notre Dame fans will be out in force. The faithful swear that on game day the entire campus comes alive to cheer on the fo...
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 lawye...
Father Roger Dowling is a busy man. He's got the ambitious and all-encompassing task of running St. Hilary's Parish, dealing with his busybody housekeeper, Mrs. Murkin, and counseling his flock with his characteristic blend of faith and compassion. He's not complaining, but it's no surprise that ...
“I don’t know what his interest is, Cy. I didn’t ask. He might have started to quiz me about it, and you handled it. There’s nothing new, is there?” “No.” “I figured you’d tell me if there was. He wanted to come here, but what the hell. Go talk with him.” “When does he expect me?” Phil gave him a...
When she got there she found the office to be almost crowded. Jason had been given pride of place, directly across the desk from the lawyer. Carmela sat beside him. She had been a constant presence all during these awful days, at the wake, at the funeral, at the cemetery afterward. She and Madeli...
Having sent Heather to spread the alarm and having discovered that Brendan Crowe’s briefcase no longer contained Sister Lucia’s handwritten account of the secrets of Fatima, Traeger did what both training and inclination prompted him to do. He vamoosed. The situation was not one in which ...
On one wall was a huge crucifix, very realistic, with great nails in the body, the crown of thorns huge and ugly, the wounds running with brightly painted blood. Brother Bernard, the infirmarian, came and went, seeming to follow his smile in and out of the room. Dave Williams looked like a monk h...
Ignatius Hannan had made few friends among his fellow electronic billionaires, but then there only were a few who survived the almost daily revolutions that rendered yesterday’s epic breakthrough obsolete early this morning. It was no industry for observers. The few at the top were at least as in...
How easy it was to imagine Charles in pursuit, Charles who had deceived him into writing a check for one hundred thousand dollars! Zeros seemed to trail away from that innocent 1 as he emerged from the garage and got into the traffic. Where was he going? Into seclusion. For how long? Block after ...
Their size alone should have made them easy to spot, but then many of them allegedly went around campus in electric carts, so their height was hidden. Did they eat in dining halls with mere mortals? “Why do you ask?” The young man’s shaved head gave him an infantile look, as if he were still awai...