This is the second or third book in a three book series about the Canterbury Cathedral. Richard Harrison worked in intelligence during the war. He is now a senior official in the church. HIs wife is in a wheelchair. A poor parson (recently widowed) is accused in a nasty note of having an affair with his female assistant, the first woman to be ordained. Harrison found the parson and his son (who has a reputation of being nothing but trouble) are found dead in a deserted house of what seems to be a murder suicide. All the doors and windows were locked from the inside so what else could have happened. There is some familiarity with Christopher Marlowe who lived in the area in his time. Harrison finally decides that both men may have been drawn to the deserted house an murdered. He also finds out that the son was really an informant for intelligence and was playing the part of a wastrel. There is a connection to an old crime, a big heist that happened at the airport years ago, but most of the money was never found. I'd be interested in reading the other two in the series.

Slow and ponderous, but engrossing. I figured out some things long before Colonel Harrison, which is unusual for me. Over all I liked it. ( )