A bizarre identity switch kicks off this intriguing psychological drama by the author of the Father Dowling mystery series. Raunchy, alcoholic ''retired'' poet Howard Webster is holed up in his Wisconsin farmhouse re-wooing his muse when a vagrant hangs himself in the barn. By burning the body on a bonfire and writing a suicide poem, Webster convinces everyone that he has died and spends the next two years anonymously in Sardinia. His larcenous daughter Felicia establishes the Webster Foundation, which accrues unexpected (but inaccessible) wealth when the curator ''discovers'' a Webster manuscript that becomes a huge posthumous success. Felicia's husband seeks a way out of vast debts incurred with pie-in-the-sky business schemes, while Webster's third (divorced) wife is persuaded to abet a plot to ''discover'' still more manuscripts. Truth-seekers among the shady types are private investigator Philip Knight and his enormously fat brother Roger, computer genius and ardent admirer of Webster's poetry. After two more deaths, numerous thefts and a kind of reverse counterfeiting, a deus ex machina wraps things up satisfactorily.
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Hardback Editions
February 1994 : Hardback
| Title: Easeful Death Author(s): McInerny Ralph M., McInarny Ralph ISBN: 0-517-11437-2 / 978-0-517-11437-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Haynes Publications Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
April 1992 : Hardback
| Title: Easeful Death Author(s): Ralph M. McInerny ISBN: 1-56054-351-5 / 9781560543510 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Pr Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1991 : Hardback
| Title: Easeful Death Author(s): Ralph M. McInerny ISBN: 0-689-12131-8 / 978-0-689-12131-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Anthem Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
January 1980 : Paperback
| Title: Easeful Death Author(s): Ralph M. McInerny Publisher: Brick House Pub Co Availability: Amazon More details... |
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