Bogmail (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Patrick McGinley
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Crime story
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: County Donegal, Ireland
- Principal Characters: Tim Roarty, Kenneth Potter, Nora Hession, Canon Loftus
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: 1970’s, Blackmail, Death or dying, Good and evil, Mysteries, Ireland or Irish people, Intellect
- Locales: Donegal, Ireland
The Novel
The action of Bogmail, the author’s first published novel, takes place in a small fictional community in his native County Donegal, Ireland’s most northwesterly and most remote county. One of the book’s most immediately attractive features is its loving evocation of this environment’s terrain, social structure, flora, and fauna. Such material, however, is not included merely to pad the plot by means of picturesque but self-indulgent travelogue. On the contrary, it forms an explicit contrast to the dark doings at the heart of the narrative.
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