Runagates in Scarceness
A Holy Mystery
- Fiction
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2013
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Publisher's Description
Runagates in Scarceness tells of a murder that took place in a fictitious Episcopal seminary in Indiana during the Vietnam War. The victim is a student there who represented the flower-child movement of the time, and the chief suspect is a fellow student who won the Medal of Honor in the war before coming to the seminary. The wife of the suspect, who had been in the Miss America Pageant, had accepted the victim as a spiritual director, and he had intended to encourage her to take LSD as a means of inducing mystical experiences. The professor of church history solves the crime by his use of what he considers correct principles of historiography.
Endorsements (2)
“Only a superb historian who grasps the importance of evidence could have written this delightful mystery, and only an accomplished priest and academic insider could have inhabited the mind and instincts of the protagonist of Runagates in Scarceness. Fortunately . . . in the author O.C. Edwards, we have all three. Sharp and crisp in every detail, Edwards's first novel is a delightful tale of intrigue. Read and enjoy!”
“Priest, southern storyteller, dean of a seminary, scholar, and professor of preaching, O.C. Edwards writes about what he knows. Here is a mystery murder that unfolds in lively detail the play of religion, romance, and the complex motives of the human heart." --Timothy F. Sedgwick, Professor of Ethics, Virginia Theological Seminary" "I love this little novel! O.C. Edwards has not only written a compelling who-done-it, he has given us a vivid picture of church life in an era when piety, propriety, and intellectual accomplishment were prized. I hope this is not the last we hear of Canon Bothwell, amateur detective.”
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