Let’s Talk of Graves, of Worms and Epitaphs

In 1855 a distinguished Anglican clergyman enters the Roman Catholic Church and later achieves the Papacy as Paschal the Fourth. Yet not only was Barnabas Barbellion married, with two children; for years, also, he was having an affair with Philippa, the wife of his neighbor, Harold Gatsby. When Gatsby died, very suddenly, and was found to have been poisoned, Philippa stood trial for his murder. The trial was a cause célèbre and even the Archbishop of Canterbury was called as a witness. Moreover, Barbellion’s ailing wife had also died rather suddenly. But no one dared to put two and two together…