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Authors: Bartholomew Gill
Well, perhaps Ward could be made to know them. City fella or no, he
would
be made to know that mountain, she now vowed. She would see to it herself, personally.
Said Molly:
he said I was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all a womans body yes that was one true thing he said in his life…that was why I liked him because I saw he understood or felt what a woman is and I knew I could always get round him and I gave him all the pleasure I could leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldn’t answer first only looked out over the sea and the sky I was thinking of so many things he didn’t know of….
Bresnahan met Ward at the door; she could see from his smile and the sparkle in his dark eyes that he had good news for her, good enough that they might be late for their reservation in Greystones. With both hands he held up the
Tribune.
Banner headlines read,
TWOFER
THE BROTHERS H
.
David Convicted of Murder
“Jammer” Charged as Accomplice
Below was a picture of Seamus Donaghy scowling into a camera, with the advisory that the verdict would be appealed.
“Yes!” Bresnahan cried, raising her arms. Ward wrapped his own around her and raised her off her feet.
“Ya happy?”
“Yes!”
There was a pause, and then his smile changed, an eyebrow arched, and his eyes flickered toward the bed.
then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
BARTHOLOMEW GILL
is the author of fifteen acclaimed Peter McGarr mysteries, among them
The Death of an Irish Sinner, The Death of an Irish Lover,
and
The Death of an Irish Tinker.
A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Mr. Gill writes as Mark McGarrity for the
Newark Star-Ledger.
He lives in New Jersey when not in Dublin.
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THE DEATH OF A JOYCE SCHOLAR
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NEW YORK TIMES
NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
“My favorite McGarr.”
Chicago Tribune
“A joy to read, and a pleasure to be in the company of as lively a set of characters as ever sparked a yearning for Dublin…The chase is headlong and fun to follow.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
“McGarr is as complex and engaging a character as you can hope to meet in contemporary crime fiction…and Gill is a marvelous tour guide, showing us [this] troubled country’s charm and warts with style and wit.”
Denver Post
“His mysteries are so very good.”
Providence Journal-Bulletin
“Bartholomew Gill has written a police procedural that defies the limits of its genre. He has taken the format and turned it into a richly textured, intricate novel that examines the Irish psyche as well as a murder. The problems explored are as much human as criminal…Gill writes with literary grace.”
Washington Post
“Taut and unerring…A superior bit of storytelling.”
Kirkus Reviews
“A rare balance of Old World mystery charm and modern shenanigans…It is easy to see why Bartholomew Gill’s creation has been compared to Simenon’s immortal Maigret and Nicholas Freeling’s unstoppable Inspector Van der Valk. McGarr is as pugnacious as they come.”
Richmond Times-Dispatch
“The Peter McGarr mystery series is heavily imbued with Irish wit and wonder…Gill has managed to combine erudition, humor, and intelligence.”
Dallas Morning News
“Gill is a nimble plotter and fine writer.”
Orlando Sentinel
“[A] splendid series…Gill shapes wonderful sentences and zestfully evokes the scenery and the spirit of his former homeland. He is also an imaginative portrayer of character.”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Gill’s dialogue is always superb. It’s the Irish talking.”
Newsday
“Sure,’ thas been said that an Irishman can spin a yarn in a league with no other. Bartholomew Gill has been proving that adage for 20 years…The reader is lulled immediately by Gill’s storytelling voice—the tone, the rhythm and dialect, the tongue-in-cheek humor and the affectionate national pride…McGarr is interesting and entertaining, to be sure, and skillful and erudite enough to lead the reader along the trail.”
San Antonio Express-News
“A joyous Joycean choice…The plot flows nicely to the end…But it is the portrait of Dublin, and the Joyce legend as it persists and infiltrates the city like fog, that give THE DEATH OF A JOYCE SCHOLAR its fine and malty tang.”
Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Gill captures the reader’s full attention with humor and inventiveness.”
Publishers Weekly
“Gill’s descriptive powers paint a vibrant landscape peopled by well-drawn characters…From cover to cover author Bartholomew Gill packs a plot with punch and poignancy.”
Boston Herald
“Gill never fails to deliver.”
Kansas City Star
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(recently published as
The Death of an Irish Politician
)
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE DEATH OF A JOYCE SCHOLAR
. Copyright © 1989 by Mark McGarrity. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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