| Summary: | The bishop's crime: The cathedral town of Badon, where the various murders are committed and where the great Mr. Fortune moves slowly and mournfully from the slenderest of clues to find a murderer and a long-dead bishop's treasure, is its own place, real, vivid, beautiful and powerful. The psychological atmosphere, one of hatred, hostility and suspicion, so out of place in a bishop's seat, has its roots in the ideological conflict between a progressive bishop and his reactionary dean, and, when ignited by the rumour of buried treasure, erupts into murder. Gone is the religious serenity; instead, "Hell's at work." And Mr. Fortune is given a problem to solve.
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