Murder in a Cathedral

Review\n\n\n‘Splendid fun and a complete delight to read… She is unique’\nJohn Welcome, Irish Independent\n\n‘The clever plot takes second place to the ebullience of the writing and spot-on inventiveness of the satire’\nMarcel Berlins, The Times\n\n‘Sprightly, saucy and ingenious’\nJohn Coleman, Sunday Times Product Description\n\n\nRuth Dudley Edwards wickedly funny series taking an irreverent look at the British Establishment continues with this burlesque in a bishopric.\n\nFor many years Westonbury Cathedral has been dominated by a clique of High Church gays, so when Norm Cooper, an austere, intolerant, happy-clappy evangelist, is appointed dean, the announcement is met with shock, outrage and fear.\n\nDavid Elworthy, the gentle and politically innocent new bishop, is distraught at the prospect of warfare between the factions; contentious issues include the camp lady chapel and the gay memorial under construction in the deanery garden. Desperate for help, Elworthy cries on the shoulder of his old friend the redoubtable Baroness Troutbeck, who forces her unofficial troubleshooter, Robert Amiss, to move into the bishops palace.\n\nAmiss, Troutbeck and the cat Plutarch address themselves in their various ways to the bishop’s problems, which very soon include a clerical corpse in the cathedral. Is it suicide? Or is it murder? And who is likely to be next?