Irish Tenure — Ralph M. McInerny

On a snowy morning that transforms Notre Dame's campus into a white cathedral, the body of philosophy professor Amanda Pick is found in a freezing lake. For private detective Philip Knight and his genius professor brother, Roger, suspects are as numerous as a penance of ten rosaries. Among them are Sean Pottery, the bibulous, rotund, ever-orating English professor whose amorous advances Amanda rebuffed; Noah Beispiel, a rare-book dealer searching for a hidden Chesterton story Amanda may have unearthed; and Hans "Hot Dog" Wiener, Amanda's rival for tenure, to name a few. Scouring the corridors of power and intrigue, ego and saintliness, the Knight brothers must find out who on campus would take academic rivalry to murderous new heights...