Let's Talk of Graves, of Worms, And Epitaphs by Robert Player

The novel opens with the line, 'It is not every man whose father was both a pope and a murderer.' The pope in question is Barnabas Barbellion, a distinguished Anglican clergyman who converted to Catholicism and later became Pope Paschal the Fourth. But years prior, Barbellion was married with two children and also having an affair with Philippa, the wife of his neighbor, Harold Gatsby. When Gatsby is poisoned to death at a croquet party, Philippa is accused of the murder a sensational trial ensues, but no one dares to connect the case with the fact that Barbellion's ailing wife had also died suddenly, except for the narrator, Barbellion's son Augustine Xavier.

Publisher:	Penguin
Year:	1977
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780140043297
Condition:	Good
Description:	Cover creased.

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SKU: 1603800
Location: Vintage