Prayer Of The Night Shepherd: A Revd Merrily Watkins Mystery (A Merrily Watkins

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		Prayer Of The Night Shepherd: A Revd Merrily Watkins Mystery (A Merrily Watkins
		Prayer Of The Night Shepherd: A Revd Merrily Watkins Mystery (A Merrily Watkins

基本信息·出版社：Macmillan UK
·页码：535 页
·出版日期：2004年04月
·ISBN：0333908066
·International Standard Book Number：0333908066
·条形码：9780333908068
·EAN：9780333908068
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语

内容简介 The fifth spiritual-procedural mystery featuring the Revd Merrily Watkins as exorcist. In a Victorian mansion-turned-hotel on the Welsh Border, Ben Foley, a redundant TV drama producer, hosts unprofitable murder mystery weekends and nurtures his dream-to show beyond all doubt that this hotel is the house on which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his famous Baskerville Hall. It's a local tradition that the origins of The Hound of the Baskervilles lie not on Dartmoor but in the Herefordshire legend of a black dog foreshadowing death. Young Jane Watkins, whose first weekend job is at the Stanner Hall Hotel, is intrigued. But Jane's mother, the Revd Merrily Watkins, Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, is unhappy when she learns how Ben Foley proposes to try to prove his theory. As the days shorten and the weather worsens, Foley's dabbling uncovers more than he can handle. For the history of Stanner Hall is linked not only to the Victorian fascination with spiritualism and the legacy of a terrifying medieval exorcism but with a chain of death that is far from fictional. - The latest occult mystery featuring Revd Merrily Watkins, an increasingly compelling heroine, and the fifth in her role as exorcist - Follows the increasingly successful relaunch of the Merrily Watkins series
作者简介 Phil Rickman has won awards for his TV and radio journalism. After five acclaimed novels, he introduced a new fascinating spiritual procedural mystery series, starring the Reverent Merrily Watkins, a single mother and Anglican priest. Phil is married and lives on the Welsh Border.
媒体推荐 “A fine mixture of murder and the occult.” -- Library Journal

“Chilling… fast–paced… provocative… even skeptics of the paranormal will shudder with fear.” -- Publishers Weekly for The Cure of Souls

“Human greed and evil, plus the healing properties of faith, combine to create a fascinating and fast-paced read.” -- Publishers Weekly Review Annex

“Rickman, a thinking reader's Elizabeth George, continues his traversal of Welsh superstitions, Church of England conundrums, and true-crime touchstones.” -- Kirkus Review
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

When unemployed TV producer Ben Foley discovers that running murder-mystery weekends at Stanner Hall, an old Herefordshire mansion turned hotel he??s purchased, isn??t as profitable as he anticipated, he determines to prove his theory that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had in mind a tale from the Welsh border region, not Devon, for the background to The Hound of the Baskervilles. In British author Rickman??s chilling fifth entry in his occult crime series (The Lamp of the Wicked, etc.) featuring Merrily Watkins, the single mom, Anglican priest and exorcist gets involved in sinister doings rooted in actual legend, as the author explains in his afterword. Merrily??s independent 17-year-old daughter, Jane, takes a job with the hotel and enthusiastically supports Foley??s plans, until the local legend of a black dog that foreshadows death becomes all too real. A pre-Christmas snowstorm provides a shivering backdrop to events at Stanner Hall that lead Merrily, boyfriend Lol Robinson and Jane into a night none of them will forget. Human greed and evil, plus the healing properties of faith, combine to create a fascinating and fast-paced read. Sherlock Holmes fans, especially members of the Baker Street Irregulars, will be intrigued by an organization called "The Baker Street League."
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From the Publisher

At Stanner Hall, a Victorian mansion–turned–hotel, Ben Foley, unemployed TV producer, hosts unprofitable murder–mystery weekends and nurtures his dream—to prove that Stanner Hall is the house on which Arthur Conan Doyle based his immortal Baskerville Hall. It’s a local tradition that the origins of The Hounds of the Baskervilles lie not in Dartmoor, but in the Herfordshire legend of a black dog foreshadowing death. Young Jane Watkins, whose first weekend job is at the hotel, is intrigued. But Jane’s mother, the Reverend Merrily Watkins, Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, is unhappy when she learns how Ben Foley proposes to prove his theory. As the days shorten and the weather worsens, Foley’s dabbling uncovers more than he can handle. For the history of Stanner Hall is linked not only to the Victorian fascination with spiritualism and the legacy of a terrifying medieval exorcism—but with a chain of death that is far from fictional.

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