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Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
When the college chancellor has to resign after he is arrested for driving drunk on the way home from a massage parlor, philosophy professor Matthew Rogerson is faced with the search committee to hire a new chancellor--a search that plumbs academic infighting, backstabbing, and even murder--all the while trying to avoid having himself named to the post.
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Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
In a small midwestern community, the Society of St. Brendan maintains a retirement community for priests as well as a rapidly growing college. When the need for a new girls' dormitory means that the order's original building will be demolished, controversy arises. At the same time, the order's founder lies stricken in the infirmary, pitting retired priests against faculty as the community faces the need for new leadership.
3) Sham rock
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Series
Notre Dame ; 13
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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When David Williams returns to campus to renege on a pledge donation, one of his former classmates sends a letter confessing to the murder and secret burial of one of their closest friends decades ago. Roger and Philip set about the task of unearthing the body but discover a much bigger mystery.
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English
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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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English
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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 that have been sent to a number of administrators, including the new football coach, who resurrected the team in a single year.
While conspiracy theories...
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English
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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, or more precisely, somebody has to go. Since they can't expel the team, they'll have to settle for firing the multimillion-dollar head coach, but will a...
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English
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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...
10) Irish gilt
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English
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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 a passion for this legendary man. As expected Boris and Roger have much to discuss. But then some of Boris's collection of rare Zahm artifacts go missing...
11) Green thumb
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English
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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,...
12) Irish alibi
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English
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Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award winner Ralph McInerny's Irish Alibi is a great addition to this stellar series, in which the past, no matter how distant, is never forgotten and always poised to rise again.
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...