Death of a chancellor - David Dickinson

anniversary in the year 1901 - a thousand years of Christian

worship. But a few weeks before the main ceremonies, a high

official of the cathedral, the chancellor, dies in mysterious

circumstances, and no one except the doctor and the

undertaker is allowed to view the corpse. It then transpires

that the chancellor was one of England's richest men. When

his sister suspects foul play, Lord Francis Powerscourt is asked

to investigate.

As Powerscourt paces the ancient cloisters and listens to

evensong from the choir stalls, he beings to suspect that a

terrible secret lies hidden in the cathedral, one that may have

something to do with the anniversary. Then a chorister is

strangled, his body found turning on the great spit in the Vicars

Hall kitchen.

Powerscourt himself escapes death by a whisker, as does his

wife, Lady Lucy, before he uncovers the astonishing secret of

Compton Minster and unmasks a murderer.

Fourth in the Lord Francis Powerscourt mystery series