Ralph Mcinerny: 26 books
A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas
A Handbook for Peeping Thomists
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1989
Thomism is solidly based on the assumption that we know the world first through our senses and then through concepts formed on the basis of our sense experience. In this informally discursive introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas, Ralph McInerny shows how this basic assumption contrasts with dominant...
Irish Alibi
A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
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 football...
by Ralph McInerny
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Tough times and the unsolved murders of anyone with ties to the Deveres---a family of wealthy parish patrons---back Father Dowling up against a wall in his struggle to save his church from the chopping block.
With too many churches and not enough people to fill them, the Archdiocese has to...
The Letter Killeth
A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
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 letters...
by Ralph McInerny
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
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...
by Ralph McInerny
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Father Dowling has been serving as parish priest and resident sleuth at St. Hilary's for a while now, but he's no lifer, and there's plenty that he doesn't know about the old guard. So when a stranger comes to Fox River who isn't a stranger to anyone but him, he has to rely on his prying housekeeper...
by Ralph McInerny
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2001
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,...
Irish Coffee
A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2003
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 several...
Celt and Pepper
A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
Martin Kilmartin is a popular young Notre Dame professor and a promising poet, and as far as everyone on campus knows, he's off to visit his ancestral Ireland over winter break. It's a shocking moment when Professor Kilmartin is discovered dead in his office, never having made it on his winter retreat....
by Ralph McInerny
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The University of Notre Dame relies on Roger Knight, the rotund professor of Catholic Studies, and his brother Philip, a semiretired PI, to investigate certain delicate situations that could put the school in a bad light. Students, faculty, and alumni, like David Williams, are all fair game.
Having...
The Green Revolution
A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Any year when the Fighting Irish don't go undefeated is a disappointment, but to turn in a losing football season is unheard of. This year the faithful are refusing to admit defeat even as the losses start to pile up. With the students in a funk and the alumni in an uproar, something must be done,...
Last Things
A Father Dowling Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2003
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...
Requiem for a Realtor
A Father Dowling Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
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 do...
Green Thumb
A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
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...
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