Foxprints

by Patrick McGinley

Martin Reddin, an Irishman, changes his name to Charles Keating, and accepts a position at a country estate shared by an Englishman, Welshman, and Scotsman, but at the same time a mysterious murderer begins stalking the area

282 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Patrick McGinley (born 1937) is an Irish novelist, born in Glencolumbkille, Ireland.

After teaching in Ireland, McGinley moved to England in the 1960s and settled in Kent. He pursued a career as a publisher and author. Among his strongest literary influences is his Irish predecessor, author Flann O'Brien, who McGinley emulates most noticeably in his novel The Devil's Diary.

Source: Wikipedia

Reviews

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you there. do you like flann o'brien? you're futzing around on goodreads, of course you do. since we've established that, you should prob read foxprints. it's a murder mystery, sure, but also the mystery of why irish fugitive keating's new housemates are obsessed with foxes, the mystery of whether that's actually a big joke, the mystery of how to properly sauce a capon, the mystery of the nocturnal crapper, & the mystery of whether "short arm examination" means what you think it does (it does). to get all lit theory for a sec i think you could argue this is an anti-encyclopedic novel, about the necessary incompleteness of human knowledge. some great tips on how to throw a rip-roarin' waygoose tho!