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It's always nice to visit St Hilary's and Father Dowling. I must confess that I was never a fan of the TV show because Tom Bosley was not at all my idea of Father Dowling and the young nun running around I found to be more than a trifle ludicrous. But Mary Wickes was a fine housekeeper. Marie Murkin, Dowling's dragon lady of a housekeeper who is most curious about all his visitors, shows in realtor, Stanley Collins. He and his late parents were members of St Hilary's years ago. He tells Dowling that he talked his also-Catholic wife into not marrying in the church, for rather spurious reasons it seems to me. Now his wife wants a divorce because she has found a new man. And since their marriage was never 'real', she can marry her new love in a Catholic ceremony. But the big surprise is the name of her new man. He is Dr David Jameson, a member of Dowling's parish who wants to study to become a permanent deacon. The dentist is what I would term a professional Catholic and Dowling is shocked at the revelation because the man had only seemed interested in his dental practice and his religion. When not long after it appears that Stanley has been killed in a hit and run accident, and Dowling's friend, Captain Phil Keegan believes that to be the case. Dowling, however, has his doubts. These doubts increase when it is discovered that the man was run down by his own car. There are plenty of suspects with the widow and Dr Jameson being the primary ones. There is also money involved. Collins' parents didn't have much faith in his ability to handle money and so he would not received his inheritance until he turned 50 and is now in his mid-40s. But his widow will get that money. His partner claims that he never pulled his weight in the real estate agency and the two had large partnership insurance policies which now will make his partner very rich. Bridget, Dr Jameson's assistant, has been secretly in love with him for years and hates the fact that he was enchanted by Mrs Collins whom she thinks of as a floozy. REQUIEM FOR A REALTOR has a good plot that kept me guessing until the end. It was also fun to meet up again with hapless lawyer, Tuttle and his mob-connected policeman friend, Peanuts. It was a pleasant visit with old friends.
Reviewed by Doris Ann Norris, July 2004
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