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  The Bishop in the West Wing (Blackie Ryan)

  by Andrew M. Greeley

  Andrew M. Greeley’s bestselling sleuth meets The West Wing . . . Blackie Ryan gets a call from his friend, the newly-elected Democratic president Jack Patrick McGurn—whom the media has seen fit to call “Machine Gun McGurn”—but of course the call is interrupted by Blackie’s boss, the autocratic Cardinal Cronin. Cronin, without consulting Blackie, sends him off to the White House to solve a poltergeist problem.... (more)
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  The Bishop Goes to the University (Blackie Ryan)

  by Andrew M. Greeley

  he irrepressible Bishop Blackwood Ryan heads to The University on the south side of Chicago to investigate a baffling locked-room mystery. Someone has assassinated a Russian Orthodox monk in his office at the Divinity School-despite the fact that the door of his office was bolted shut from the inside. No killer was found within. It turns out that the mystery of the locked room is simple compared to the... (more)
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  The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood (Blackie Ryan Novels)

  by Andrew M. Greeley

  “Blackwood, there’s trouble in the old neighborhood! Murder in the sanctuary of the Church!” The church in question is St. Lucy’s, a humble edifice at the heart of a venerable Chicago neighborhood now suffering the throes of gentrification. St. Lucy’s has long stood as a bulwark against evil and change, which some in the community have often seen as much the same thing. Now three dead bodies have been left in the... (more)
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  White Smoke: A Novel About the Next Papal Conclave

  by Andrew M. Greeley

  When the College of Cardinals meets to choose the next pope, Bishop Blackie aryan is on the scene along with two prominent journalists, who oversee heated discussions about the papal contenders. Reprint. PW. LJ.