The Silver Hammer

THE BATON ROUGE ADVOCATE calls it "a hefty dose of suspense, excitement, intrigue & Vatican politics." THE HOUSTON POST's distinguished reviewer, Marguerite Johnston, calls it an "excellent first novel," saying: "Digby Wingfield, a reporter for a small American weekly in Rome, is sent to interview Pope Gregory XVII. The next morning, the world learns the Pope is dead. Digby never shows up for work again. Digby's American editor, a leftover from World War II, soon finds out all sorts of oddities about his missing employee & in the meantime an American nun temporarily posted to the Vatican, finds even greater oddities there. The two team up in this complex, highly readable mystery." Distribution by Baker & Taylor Books, 652 East Main Street, P.O. Box 6920, Bridgewater, NJ 08807-0920. Tel. 908-218-0400, FAX 908-218-3966.