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A collection of mystery stories culled from the pages of "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" and "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" features the work of John Mortimer, G.K. Chesterton, and Ralph McInerny - The Dutiful Son, Ralph McInerny - The Second Commandment, Charlotte Armstrong - Death of an Alumnus, Janet O'Daniel - The Price of Light, Ellis Peters - A Face to Remember, Mary Amlaw - The Man in the Passage, G.K. Chesterton - Justina, Dorothy Salisbury Davis - In the Confessional, Alice Scanlan Reach - Rumpole and the Man of God, John Mortimer

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These stories represent an intermediate stage in the evolution of the Knight brothers in Ralph McJnerny's fiction. In The Noonday Devil, Phil, in his capacity as private detective, was fairly close to the action, but by no means the major character. Roger, his blimp-sized brother, entered obliquely into the story but ended by starring in the finale. Readers liked them, in particular Roger. So McJnerny brought them back in Easeful Death, where they are far more central and Roger occupies much space, physically and narratively. And so it might have remained. When McJnerny was asked to do a Notre Dame series of mysteries, he decided to bring Roger to South Bend as the Huneker Professor of Catholic Studies, accompanied by the semi-retired Phil, who has the full menu of Notre Dame sports to keep him occupied. Prior to starting the series, McJnerny wanted to reacquaint himself with the Knights and hit upon the idea of doing a series of Knight brothers stories in Crisis, a magazine he founded with Michael Novak. Before moving them to South Bend, he wanted to see them in action, working out of New York, always driving in the specially designed van, never flying, to the cities were their client lived. Good Knights is the result of putting these eight Knights brothers' stories together. Call them finger exercises in character. The response to them in the magazine was gratifying, and with them behind him, McJnerny launched the Notre Dame series, with On This Rockne in 1996, thirteen years and thirteen novels ago. But the origins of that successful series is seen here.