The Black Seraphim

by Michael Gilbert

Book Overview

James Scotland, a young pathologist, decides on a quiet holiday in Melchester, but amid the cathedral town's quiet medieval atmosphere, he finds a hornet's nest of church politics, town and country... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140075631
• ISBN13: 9780140075632
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Murder in the cathedral

"The Black Seraphim" is set in a Church of England cathedral-close milieu. A clergyman involved in the controversy over the possible sale of cathedral land to developers is murdered. Exceptionally well written, and in the literate British cozy tradition, this book is filled with interesting and eccentric characters, both clerical and lay, and is lightened with humor. I think readers who enjoy Michael Innes and Edmund Crispin will like this one. I wish I'd discovered Mr. Gilbert's novels when they were available new. Now I'm going to have to search used-book stores for the rest of them. Let's hope the publisher reissues them.