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Death of a pilgrim

ISBN: 9781780334134 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1780334133 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource
Publisher: London : Constable &amp; Robinson, 2011.

Dickinson, David 1946- (Author).

Summary: 1905. A young man called James Delaney is dying in a New York hospital. The doctors and the nuns cannot save him. When his life is spared his tycoon father takes it as a miracle and organizes a family pilgrimage to the resting place of the boy's name saint, Saint James the Greater in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the greatest pilgrimage site of the Middle Ages. The first modern-day pilgrim is killed in Le Puy en Velay in Southern France and Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. The pilgrims' progress across the holy sites is punctuated by further bizarre deaths. After his own life is put i.