It seems that Northumberland planning officer Arnold Langdon just can’t stay out of trouble.
He agrees to undertake some research for a university professor, determining if a Cluniac monastery might have existed in the area. His supervisor (bearing only the name of “Senior Planning Officer”) assigns him a hornet’s nest of a project – local farmers upset that a group of Gypsies has been allowed to camp on the commons. Another planning petition involves a group seeking to use a local church, and the group may or may not have a Satanic orientation. And while checking the church, Arnold discovers the body of an older Gypsy man, who appears to have been died in a ritualistic stabbing.
Violence seems to be dogging Arnold everywhere he turns; it will soon follow him to his own home and result in the discovery of yet another body. Having a hobby like studying medieval architecture and building materials can be a dangerous thing.
Roy Lewis
Murder in the Church is the fifth Arnold Landon mystery by British writer Roy Lewis, and a fine, intriguing mystery it is. A planning official is not your typical mystery detective, but his mild, unassuming manner masks a mystery-solving mind. Landon mut have been a favorite character for the author, as he’s written some 22 novels featuring him.
Lewis is the author of some 60 other mysteries, novels, and short story collections. His Inspector Crow series includes A Lover Too Many, Murder in the Mine, The Woods Murder, Error of Judgment, and Murder for Money, among others. The Eric Ward series, of which The Sedleigh Hall Murder is the first (and originally published as A Certain Blindness in 1981), includes 17 novels. Lewis lives in northern England.
Related:
Murder in the Barn by Roy Lewis.
Murder in the Manor by Roy Lewis.
Murder in the Farmhouse by Roy Lewis.
Murder in the Stableyard by Roy Lewis.
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