Bones in the belfry

Description:

Having extricated himself from the embarrassment of murdering his lady parishioner, the Reverend Oughterard is now plunged into the traumas of art theft. Forced by the shady Nicholas Ingaza into being a fence for stolen paintings, he endures the investigative probings of terrifying female novelist and amateur sleuth, Maud Tubbly Pole, hell-bent on portraying him in her next novel. Fearful of exposure in his new role of 'receiver', the Reverend blunders haplessly in a mesh of intrigue and risible deceit, and his antics are commented upon by his cat, the acidic Maurice, and redoubtable bone-grinding ally, the dog Bouncer.

subjects: Fiction,  Parochial vicars in fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  Detective and mystery stories in fiction,  Dogs in fiction,  Women novelists in fiction,  Cats in fiction,  Parochial Vicars,  Cats,  Authorship,  Women novelists,  Dogs,  Vicars, Parochial -- Fiction,  Large type books,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Authors, fiction,  Fiction, humorous,  England, fiction,  Fiction, humorous, general

Places: Surrey (England)