Title: Cassock Murders - Phyllis Dorothy James - book
Summary :
St. Anselm, a theological college founded in the 19th century and located on a remote and windswept promontory on the southeast coast of England, is home to around twenty students destined for the Anglican priesthood. When one of them, Ronald Treeves, is discovered dead at the foot of a cliff, buried beneath a sandbank, his wealthy adoptive father, Sir Alred Treeves, asks New Scotland Yard to review the inquest's verdict of "accidental death." Major Dalgliesh, who himself attended the college as a child, agrees to spend a weekend there for what he believes is just a routine check. In reality, he is about to find himself confronted with one of the most sordid cases of his career. Other visitors are expected at the college that same weekend, and not all of them will emerge alive.
PD James has found in this small theological college an ideal setting for a detective novel, an almost closed world where passions ferment. In addition to the four clergymen who run the establishment and teach the main courses, in addition to the twenty or so students and the nurse Margaret Munroe, there is Gregory, the eccentric Greek professor, Emma, the very beautiful poetry professor, Eric, the factotum who raises pigs and who receives his incestuous half-sister in his cottage every two weeks... Everything is in place to weave a complex plot whose intertwinings readers will follow with delicious anxiety.
