Midnight Come
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ISBN: 0312200587 / Publisher: St. Martin's Press, March 1999
Richard Harrison, a church official in modern-day Canterbury, England, investigates the murder of a person he found in a locked room, even as townspeople put on a production of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, a play that somehow is connected to the murder
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The sequestered peace of the Canterbury Cathedral community is shattered by the arrival of a poison pen letter. Reluctantly dragged from his administrative duties to investigate the allegations of gross sexual misconduct between a recently widowed parson and his female assistant, senior Church official Richard Harrison accidentally stumbles upon the horrific scene of a double killing. In doing so, he is set on a lonely, tortuous path to discover the identity of the anonymous letter-writer, whose malicious libels apparently precipitated the tragic deaths.Faced with a seemingly motiveless crime, Harrison follows a maze of leads in which the proposed sale of a 200-year-old charity cottage and the short, violent life of Christopher Marlowe, the sixteenth-century poet and playwright, appear to twine about the bizarre happenings in a country parish.
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