Poetic Obituaries: [Ralph] McInerny edited a series of translations

of Aquinas's commentaries, published a volume of poetry in 2005 and edited three anthologies of crime fiction with a religious twist. His series of lectures delivered in Glasgow in 1999 and 2000 were published as Characters in Search of Their Author in 2001.

The success of McInerny's Father Dowling books led to a television series based on the character--The Father Dowling Mysteries--shown in America between 1989 and 1991, with Tom Bosley in the title role, his first starring part since playing the chubby father, Howard Cunningham, in Happy Days.

from The Daily Telegraph: Ralph McInerny

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