num_pages: 176
description: Sister Anne has been thrown down the cellar stairs, and Inspector Sloan wonders who in God's name would want to murder a cloistered nun? Sloan's task is complicated by the unusual witnesses - 50-plus discreet, identically dressed nuns, each of whom has an assumed name and a past secular life.
language: English
title: The Religious Body
titlecomplete: The Religious Body
characters: Caesar's wife (The Religious Body), Detective Constable Wiliam Crosby, Sergeant Perkins, Father MacAuley, Sister Jerome, Sister Ninian, Sister Cellarer, Sister Mary St. Gertrude, Dyson (The Religious Body), Sister Mary St. Hilda, Miss Faine, Noel Coward (The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to London), Harold Cartwright, Guy Fawkes (Over the Edge), Mother Mary St. Therese, Mrs. Alfred Cartwright, St. Anselm (The Religious Body), Margaret Sloan, Parker and Bullen, Superintendent Leeyes, Dr. Carret, Christopher Denis "C.D." Sloan, Queen Victoria (The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to London), Sister Lucy, Sister Anne (The Religious Body), The leading fireman, Sister St. John of the Cross and Mother St. Theobald, Dr. Dabbe, Mr. Ranby, Sister Damien and Sister Michael, Sister Ignatius, William Tewn, Sister Polycarp, Lady Macbeth (Three Act Tragedy), Reverend Mother, Sister Porteress, Sister Radigund, Alfred Cartwright, Mary Queen of Scots (The Face of Helen), Jenkins (The Religious Body), King Henry IV (The Religious Body), Mr. Hobbett, Sister Bertha, Sister Peter
genres: Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Thriller, Crime, Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Historical Mystery, Audiobook, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 3672
places: Calleshire, England, England
series: Inspector Sloan
publisher: Bantam Books