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Prayer Of The Night Shepard: A Revd Merrily Watkins Mystery (A Merrily Watkins Mystery)
Prayer Of The Night Shepard A Revd Merrily Watkins Mystery - A Merrily Watkins Mystery Author:Phil Rickman In a Victorian mansion-turned-hotel, Ben Foley hosts unprofitable murder mystery weekends and strives to prove that his hotel is the house on which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his famous Baskerville Hall. Foley's dabbling uncovers more than he can handle. This is the sixth novel about the professional and private life of the Rev. Merrily Watkin... more »s, consultant on exorcism to the Diocese of Hereford and, of course, her teenage daughter Jane, who is more into paganism. It's a crime novel with a careful element of the paranormal. Set in real locations on the Welsh border with England, this one finds Merrily involved in the investigation of murder both contemporary and buried in family history. It also deals with the continuing controversy over the origins of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles. There's strong evidence that the real Hound emanates from a medieval farmhouse just below Offa's Dyke, in an area connected with the Baskerville family and possibly with Conan Doyle himself. But, if this is true, why did he change the location to Dartmoor?« less