Still Life

Egidio Manfredi #1

by Ralph McInerny

The creator of the beloved Father Dowling Mysteries introduces a new series, featuring Detective Egidio Manfredi, a 64-year-old detective on the Fort Elbow police force. Facing mandatory retirement in one year, Manfredi is wondering if he shouldn't have retired long ago for a job at some mall ogling young matrons. When he's called upon to reopen an unsolved case, he isn't particularly excited. First, it happened thirty years ago. Second, no one is certain there actually was a crime ...

Genres: Mystery

255 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2000

About the author

Ralph Matthew McInerny was an American Catholic religious scholar and fiction writer, including mysteries and science fiction. Some of his fiction has appeared under the pseudonyms of Harry Austin, Matthew FitzRalph, Ernan Mackey, Edward Mackin, and Monica Quill. As a mystery writer he is best known as the creator of Father Dowling. He was Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Jacques Maritain Center, and Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame until his retirement in June 2009. He died of esophageal cancer on January 29, 2010.