The Death of an Irish Sea Wolf: A Peter McGarr Mystery
 Amazon.com Review: Mystery writers often seek foreboding locales as the settings for their tales, and Bartholomew Gill has certainly found such a spot in a wind-swept, desolate island in the North Sea. You can almost see the fog rolling through the [... more]
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Death In Dublin (Peter McGarr Mysteries)
Images are aids to understanding: Everyone has an inner voice, the voice of God. McGarr's wife Noreen had been murdered two years earlier. There was a theft at Trinity library of two volumes of the Book of Kells. The guard, Sloane, was killed. He had [... more]
$6.99
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The Death of an Irish Sinner: A Peter McGarr Mystery ...
The Last McGarr: With the untimely death of Mark McGarrity (pen name, Bartholomew Gill) this is, unfortunately, the last McGarr. Fortunately, it was one of his best. This is certainly the darkest of the McGarr series. The characters are ageing, and all [... more]
$6.99
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The Death of an Irish Tradition (Peter McGarr Mysteries)
Murder at the Horse Show: I read this book under its original title and it was good then and it will be good now. I knew the author and still know his brother, George. All of his books should be the basis for a television series shot on location. Mark [... more]
$6.99
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The Death of An Irish Counsul (Peter McGarr Mysteries)
Early Gill mystery takes place in Siena during the Palio.: Published as McGarr and the Sienese Conspiracy in 1977, this early McGarr mystery, newly reprinted with a new title, is most unusual in that it takes primarily in Italy, not Ireland. Here Gill [... more]
$6.99
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The Death of an Irish Politician (Peter McGarr Mysteries)
Satisfying, if typical: Bartholomew Gill's Death of An Irish Politician is a perfectly serviceable, if occasionally cliched mystery novel. Indeed, long time mystery fans will recognize many generic conventions at once, from the idiosyncratic but doggedly [... more]
$6.99
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The Death of an Irish Lass (Peter McGarr Mysteries)
To Irish Cops. Two shoes, two fists, hard head, big heart.": With this toast Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr of the Garda Soichana salutes his New York counterparts for helping him investigate IRA fund-raising in the U.S. to finance terrorism [... more]
$6.99
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McGARR AND THE POLITICIAN (Penguin Crime Fiction)
Especially intriguing for fans who study writing.: Originally published in 1977 as McGarr and the Politician's Wife, and reissued in February, 2000, after the Peter McGarr series became popular, this first novel may be particularly interesting to those [... more]
$3.95
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Death on a Cold, Wild River: A Peter McGarr Mystery
Of shielings, shebeens, and Finn MacCool's salmon.: Gill's novels are always fun because they revolve around aspects of Irish life not usually incorporated into mystery stories--eel-fishing, secret Catholic societies, literary history, and in this case, [... more]
$4.99
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The Death of an Ardent Bibliophile
The darkest and most offbeat of Gill's novels.: Strikingly different in tone from all the other Peter McGarr mysteries, this novel may have been a Gill experiment in the blackest of black humor. It's a curiosity in the McGarr series, a wicked piece of [... more]
$20.95
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McGarr and the Method of Descartes (Penguin Crime Fiction)
"Divide each problem into as many parts as possible.": This Cartesian principle resonates throughout Gill's narrative about the violence in Northern Ireland, as he represents the many competing forces in the battle to control Northern Ireland. [... more]
$3.95
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McGarr and the P.M. of Belgrave Square
Early McGarr mystery focuses on Nazi art thefts.: In the fifth of his sixteen Peter McGarr mysteries, author Bartholomew Gill is still finding his niche. Though he is using the same police characters from the Garda Siochana in Dublin with which he began [... more]
$3.95
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