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McInerny, Ralph 1929-2010

Overview
Works: 268 works in 788 publications in 8 languages and 94,122 library holdings
Genres: Mystery fiction  College stories  Detective and mystery stories  Legal stories  Detective and mystery stories, American  Sports stories  Football stories  Religious fiction  Humorous fiction  Adventure fiction 
Roles: Translator, Editor
Classifications: ps3563.a31166, 813.54
Publication Timeline
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Publications by Ralph McInerny Publications by Ralph McInerny
posthumous Publications by Ralph McInerny, published posthumously.
Most widely held works by Ralph McInerny
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18 editions published between and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,428 libraries worldwide
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12 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 1,417 libraries worldwide
In St. Hilary's rectory, Father Dowling meets with a husband seeking an annulment of his marriage. Then he meets with the wife who opposes it--they have been married 30 years. The husband is murdered and Father Dowling goes to work. By the author of Seed of Doubt.
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13 editions published between and 1994 in English and held by 1,415 libraries worldwide
A magic trick during a show a the St. Hilary's parish center uses a ring with an inscription memorable to Father Dowling, an item that figures largely in a subsequent murder investigation.
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10 editions published between and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,398 libraries worldwide
While Father Dowling investigates the death of a wealthy dowager, a second death occurs as the family squabbles over the contents of her will.
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7 editions published between and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,383 libraries worldwide
When the body of a murdered mobster is stolen from its grave, Father Roger Dowling tries to discover whether the body's disappearance is related to the mobster's mysterious death.
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14 editions published between and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,291 libraries worldwide
Father Roger Dowling tries to find who murdered his friend's daughter right before she was to enter a convent.
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5 editions published in in English and Undetermined and held by 1,288 libraries worldwide
St. Hillary's Father Dowling investigates the death of a young woman killed in traffic. Meanwhile, the rivalry between elderly suitors threatens to disrupt the peaceful parish.
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2 editions published in in English and held by 1,277 libraries worldwide
Father Dowling confronts an ethical dilemma when one of his parishioners reveals information in confidence about a troubled marriage, and the parishioner's spouse later becomes the victim of a brutal hit-and-run "accident" that could be murder.
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3 editions published in in English and held by 1,266 libraries worldwide
When an adopted young woman's search for her birth parents leads to murder, Father Dowling and attorney Amos Cadbury risk the heartbreak and peace of two families as they seek the killer of Martha Lynch's biological father.
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12 editions published between and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,263 libraries worldwide
Desert Sinner is the fifteenth mystery to feature Roger Dowling, the shrewd and compassionate priest of Fox River, Illinois. Ralph McInerny's novels are known for their subtle humor, humanity, grasp of religious issues, and Dowling's instinctively accurate sleuthing. In Desert Sinner, a former Las Vegas showgirl named Stacey Wilson is jailed for the murder of her husband, Marvin, a rich playboy whose marriage to the showgirl was a local scandal. Stacey staunchly claims.
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9 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 1,215 libraries worldwide
The discovery of the mangled body of Wallace Flanagan 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 more than a decade earlier.
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6 editions published between and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,206 libraries worldwide
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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3 editions published in in English and held by 1,203 libraries worldwide
Father Dowling becomes entangled in a decade-old crime when he meets Nathaniel Green, returning home after being convicted of killing his terminally ill wife, and suspects that Green may not have committed the crime to which he confessed.
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6 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 1,199 libraries worldwide
A tale of academic intrigue in Notre Dame University. At stake is a $10-million donation in memory of a football coach and the infighting leads to murder. PI Phillip Knight investigates along with and his brother, Roger, a philosophy professor.
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3 editions published between and 2003 in English and held by 1,197 libraries worldwide
Becoming suspicious after noting inconsistencies at the site of a young colleague's death, Notre Dame professor Roger Knight and his brother, Philip, draw on their academic expertise, as well as campus gossip, to solve the crime.
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6 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 1,172 libraries worldwide
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.
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3 editions published between and 2007 in English and held by 1,144 libraries worldwide
As private detective Philip Knight and his brother Roger, a Catholic Studies professor, probe a series of threatening letters targeting Notre Dame, the campus is rocked by an explosion and the brothers search for an unknown villain.
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3 editions published between and 2002 in English and held by 1,117 libraries worldwide
"Heavyweight Notre Dame professor Roger Knight and his PI brother Philip investigate a baffling puzzle when some extremely rare literary documents go missing."--Jacket.
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3 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 1,099 libraries worldwide
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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3 editions published between and 2011 in English and held by 1,096 libraries worldwide
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 when those closest to them start turning up dead.--From publisher's description.
 
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Grave undertakings : a Father Dowling mystery
Alternative Names

controlled identity Quill, Monica,1929-2010

controlled identity Mackin, Edward,1929-2010

controlled identity Austin, Harry,1929-2010

Mac Inerny, Ralph M.
MacInerny, Ralph, 1929-
MacInerny, Ralph 1929-2010 RAK alt
MacInerny, Ralph M.
MacInerny, Ralph M. 1929-2010
Mc Inerny, Ralph M.
Mc Inerny, Ralph M. 1929-2010
McInerny, Ralph.
McInerny, Ralph 1929-2010
Mcinerny, Ralph M., 1929-2010
Pseud. Austin, Harry 1929-2010
Pseud. Mackin, Edward 1929-2010
Pseud. Quill, Monica 1929-2010
Quill, Monica, 1929-
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