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Private investigator Philip Knight is asked to investigate a rash of threatening letters that have been sent to administrators at Notre Dame University, and Philip believes the letters are simply a student prank, until a man is found dead and Philip realizes he is on the trail of a vicious killer.
5) Blood ties
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Henry Dolan's granddaughter, Martha Lynch, adopted 23 years earlier, wants to find her birth parents. Her adopted parents are frantic over the idea of losing her, so Henry seeks out Father Dowling for help.
Meanwhile, Martha's birth father, Nathaniel Fleck, who left before Martha's birth, has contacted Martha's real mother, Madeline, for details about Martha. Madeline panics, afraid he won't leave her alone, and turns to Amos Cadbury, a lawyer, for...
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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 his best to find a way to help, but it soon becomes too late. One of the parties involved is viciously killed in a hit and run car accident.
7) Irish coffee
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Notre Dame mysteries volume 7
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Investigating the murder of a Notre Dame athletic department faculty member, professor Roger Knight and his P.I. brother Phil, meet a host of suspects at the victim's wake, including two women who both claim they were secretly engaged to him.
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The discovery of the mangled body of a man in one of his father's cement mixers sends Father Dowling on an investigation into the secret past of the victim, the heir to a lucrative concrete business, who supposedly had left town with his mistress more than a decade earlier.
10) Sham rock
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Notre Dame mysteries volume 13
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Knight brothers Roger, a professor, and Philip, a semiretired PI, look into a decades-old disappearance ... With the economy in a downward slide, financial adviser David Williams, class of '89, returns to his alma mater to renege on his generous offer to fund a new building and to visit his son, who's a Notre Dame junior. Meanwhile, Notre Dame's associate archivist receives an unusual donation from a priest alumnus-a box containing newspaper clippings,...
11) Emerald Aisle
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Notre Dame mysteries volume 5
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Heavyweight Notre Dame professor Roger Knight and his p.i. brother Philip investigate a baffling puzzle when some extremely rare literary documents go missing in the fifth installment of this smart academic mystery series. Complicating matters for the brothers are the impending nuptials of some dear friends, Larry Morton and Nancy Beatty, which hit a snag. When Larry was an undergraduate at Notre Dame, he made a prudent but overly optimistic reservation...
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With Notre Dame in an uproar over the university's disastrous football season, Roger Knight, professor of Catholic Studies, finds himself a marked man as he and his P.I. brother Philip launch separate investigations to put a stop to a campus conspiracy.
13) Irish gilt
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Notre Dame mysteries volume 9
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Detective Phil Knight teams up with his brother, Notre Dame professor Roger Knight, to investigate the theft of some valuable artifacts and the killing of a researcher, crimes that may be linked to a nineteenth-century theologian.
14) Green thumb
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Notre Dame mysteries volume 8
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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 dies at the hospital and an autopsy suggests that his death was not an accident. The victim--poisoned with deadly nightshade--turns out to be Mortimer Sadler,...
15) Irish alibi
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Brothers Roger and Philip Knight become embroiled in a dangerous new case when the football rivalry between Georgia Tech and the University of Notre Dame ignites dark memories of the Civil War past that lead to modern-day murder.
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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. Apparently the victim of a weak heart, Kilmartin's death comes just months before he is to be wed, and on the heels of some outstanding recognition...
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Father Dowling mysteries volume 20
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2001.
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Father Dowling investigates the death of a young parishoner when the police begin to wonder if was actually an accident, and also the lives of those attending the church's senior center when competition among suitors leads to deadly repercussions.
18) Cause and effect
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While trying to extricate a client from the charge of conspiring to kill her husband, Boom must also face his own mortality.
19) Ash Wednesday
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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 to tell him that the mystery man is actually a well-known murderer. Ten years ago, Nathaniel Green's wife was dying of cancer, and after a short remission...
20) Stained glass
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With too many churches and not enough people to fill them, the Archdiocese has to make some cuts, and many of them, including the proposed closing of St. Hilary's are dangeriously close to the bone. Father dowling rushes to drum up support from church officials and parishioners, including the Deveres, who don't want to see the stained glass windows they donated go anywhere other than the church they were meant for, but they can hardly be of help...
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