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Death comes for the Anglicans, Spenser out West and more Flordia mayhem.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20010429
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"Vouchsafe O Lord, to keep us this day without being found out" is the apt Samuel Butler epigraph to one of three first-rate new mysteries, all of which, by the sheerest coincidence (I think), have to do with the Anglican Church. P.D. James's Death in Holy Orders (Knopf, $25) is the most noteworthy of the three. That's not necessarily because it is superior to the others; each succeeds in its own way in providing readers with character, wit, suspense and ideas, as well as a plain old mystery-reader's rip-roaring good time.

But James's performance is especially satisfying in that a) it marks ...

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