Blackie Ryan · Book 16

The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood

by Andrew M. Greeley

Published
1 January 2005
Pages
352
ISBN-13
9781585476800
Type
novel

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About this book

The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood is the 16th book in the Blackie Ryan series, written by Andrew M. Greeley, published in 2005 at 352 pages. It follows The Bishop Goes to the University and precedes The Bishop at the Lake in the reading order.

Its place in Blackie Ryan

The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood is book 16 in the Blackie Ryan series. It follows The Bishop Goes to the University. It is followed by The Bishop at the Lake. See the full Blackie Ryan reading order.

Father John "Blackie" Ryan is a deceptively mild, owlishly bespectacled Chicago priest -- rector of a cathedral parish, later an auxiliary bishop and archbishop -- who solves murders among Chicago's Irish Catholic elite with a quiet, observational cunning that his unassuming manner tends to hide from suspects and colleagues alike. Andrew Greeley wrote eighteen Blackie Ryan novels over more than two decades, moving the character up through the Church hierarchy as the series progressed -- the earlier books use the…

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