The Death of a Joyce Scholar: A Bloomsday Murder Mystery in Dublin with Twisted Passions

The Death of a Joyce Scholar: A Bloomsday Murder Mystery in Dublin with Twisted Passions by Gill, Bartholomew. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780380711291.

Trinity professor and Joycean scholar Kevin Coyle was one of Dublins most colorful -- and controversial -- characters, until someone stabbed him through the heart on Bloomsday, the annual citywide celebration honoring Irelands most beloved literary light. The poetic irony is not lost on Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr: one of the foremost experts on the works of James Joyce was slain on the so-called "Murderers Ground" made famous in the authors magnum opus Ulysses. But the connection does not end there. And the deeper the intrepid McGarr digs, the more startling truths he uncovers about a victims dark, licentious history, a list of suspects as vast and varied as the characters in a great novel ... and a motive for murder that can hide as easily in the pages of a classic book as in the twisted passions of a human heart.