"Following the more than slight embarrassment of having murdered a lady parishioner, the hapless Reverend Francis Oughterard is now plunged into the world of art crime. Forced by the shady Nicholas Ingaza into acting as a fence for stolen paintings, he must endure the investigative probings of terrifying female novelist and amateur sleuth, Maud Tubbly Pole, hell-bent on portraying him in her next novel." "Haunted by his homicidal past and fearful of exposure in his new role of "receiver", the Reverend flounders in a mesh of intrigue and deceit. As usual, each fresh disaster is given added piquancy by the commentary of his cat, the acidic Maurice, and his redoubtable bone-grinding ally, the dog Bouncer."--Jacket.