Clerical Investigations of The Reverend Lyle Thorne: Mysteries from the Golden Age of Detection

by Ray Moore

Having spent five years gaining the qualifications necessary to become a minister in the Church of England, Rev. Lyle Thorne discovers that getting an appointment to a parish is harder than he had anticipated. Two decades separate Lyle Thorne’s resignation from the Metropolitan Police and his appointment as the Vicar of Sanditon. Finally, a recently discovered manuscript throws light on Thorne’s ‘lost years’. In three narratives, Thorne’s friend, Reginald Knowles, reveals the details of investigations that Thorne conducted within the Church of curate inexplicably leaves his parish in the middle of the night, just as two years earlier the former vicar had also left… A vicar in Leeds is found kneeling over the dead body of his wife with the murder weapon in his hand… The manuscript of an ancient Lindisfarne gospel and its modern translation disappear from a locked strongbox, in a locked desk, in a locked room…

183 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 16, 2018