- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books; First Edition edition (April 13 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 031258265X
- ISBN-13: 978-0312582654
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 16 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #757,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Ralph McInerny’s Mysteries Set at the University of Notre Dame
“McInerny produces a lively mix of institutional history and criticism with colorful individual foibles. The end result should please.”
---Publishers Weekly on The Green Revolution
“No Notre Dame alumnus . . . will want to miss it.”
---Kirkus Reviews on Irish Alibi
“The wit and wisdom of the two brothers and vivid descriptions of the Notre Dame campus enhance a twisty plot that will delight McInerny’s devoted fans.”
---Publishers Weekly on Irish Alibi
“Mr. McInerny creates a pleasantly malicious microcosm for the antics that follow.”
---The Wall Street Journal on Green Thumb
“Most readers will be converted to die-hard Notre Dame fans and possibly Catholicism.”
---Kirkus Reviews on Irish Coffee
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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 been a successful financial adviser until recently, David has returned to campus to renege on a pledged donation to the university’s ethics program. While he’s there, one of his former classmates sends a letter confessing to the murder and a secret burial of one of their closest friends, a student who had gone missing decades before and was never found. As students, David, Patrick, and Timothy made up the “Trinity,” an irreverent nickname for three close friends and fierce rivals---be it for on-campus prestige or the affections of a beautiful St. Mary’s student from across the road.
Ready to help the school put the whole sordid tragedy behind them, Roger and Philip set about the sad task of unearthing Timothy’s body, only to find that they have a much bigger mystery with which to contend.
With rivalries rekindled and the brothers Knight digging into the university’s past, Sham Rock, the latest in Ralph McInerny’s well-loved mystery series, is as witty and charming as ever
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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strong Fighting Irish academic mystery, April 17 2010
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sham Rock (Hardcover)
Because of the recession, financial adviser David Williams returns to his ala mater Notre Dame to visits his son attending classes there and to inform the university's administration he cannot afford to finance a new building as he promised. As David visits, another alumnus sends to the school's associate archivist a box filled with newspaper clippings and various other sundry including the confession of a murder and burial of the victim, another student from the class of 89 Timothy Quinn, who had vanished two decades ago.
The school leadership, having used retired private investigator Philip Knight to work sensitive cases before, asks him to look into the Quinn situation. With the help of his brother Catholic Studies Professor Roger Knight Philip begins his inquiry starting with a look back to 1989 when the "Trinity" of David, Timothy and Patrick were rivals and buddies. Upon digging up the corpse, the siblings realize the case is much more convoluted than they expected.
The latest Knight brothers Notre Dame investigative tale (see The Green Revolution) is one of the better entries in what is a fun lighthearted private detective series. The story line is fast-paced from the moment the archivist opens the box and never slows down as Philip with Roger assisting him begins the inquiry into what happened in 1989 only to find a much bigger case on their hands. Ralph McInerny, who died in January, provides a strong Fighting Irish academic mystery.
Harriet Klausner
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Finance, Religion and Murder, July 25 2010
By Joyce S. Rathbone "avidreader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sham Rock (Hardcover)
I won't give you a synopsis of the story; you can get that from Publisher's Weekly. I picked up this book off the new book shelf at the library, and didn't look into it enough to realize it is the 13th book in a series. As I read this book, I felt as though I was at a class reunion of a school I had never attended with people I had never met. There really wasn't too much of a plot; but a murder was committed and if you can't easily identify the killer you probably don't read very many mysteries. But for a Saturday afternoon by the pool or at the beach, it was a fast easy read.
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