Don t expect a modern viewpoint to be reflected in this mystery since the author has done her research and writes from a strictly medieval perspective. Unholy Ghosts , by D. M. Greenwood Greenwood, who describes herself as an ecclesiastical civil servant, writes of the cool and clever Deaconess Theodora Braithwaite of the Church of England. In Unholy Ghosts Braithwaite s Norfolk holiday is interrupted by news of a parish pastor who has literally dug his own grave. Father Marr, having dug a large pit in the churchyard, ostensibly to work on the heating ducts in the chapel, is discovered dead at the bottom. Then Father Marr s widow vanishes.
Greenwood has a fresh, clever, and civilized style.