The Red Priest Eric Linklater His uncle Crispin is broke

His uncle Crispin is broke and employs a butler who isn't all he seems

With a killer in the crowd

just waiting to begin

action-packed adventure set on Rome's Danubian frontier

But the glamorous event is interrupted by the piercing screams of a young woman in the street outside

The Red Priest Eric Linklater His uncle Crispin is brokeFather Augustine Card is a very advanced Anglo Catholic clergyman described by the press as 'The Red Priest'. This is partly because of the Russian clerics whose visits to his church were a newspaper sensation, and partly because in his sermons Father Card compares the sermon on the Mount to Russian communism. Some of the more fashionable of his congregation leave the church; but one, a beautiful young woman, remains, and eventually marries the vicar.