num_pages: 256
description: Dublin’s most eminent Joyce scholar, Kevin Coyle, is stabbed through the heart near Glasnevin Cemetery. His wife has him at home in bed – ‘but he’s going off in the heat…’ So she sends for Dublin’s most eminent policeman, Inspector Peter McGarr of the Garda. Why did he die, where did he dies, and where is his prized possession – a hat originally worn by James Joyce? The answers, he is told, are to found in Ulysses – but McGarr prefers a more orthodox channel…
language: English
title: Death of a Joyce Scholar
titlecomplete: Death of a Joyce Scholar
genres: Crime, Novels, Irish Literature, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Ireland, Mystery
ratings_count: 285
series: Peter McGarr
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Allison & Busby LTD