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Author: Guernsey Van Riper

📘 Knute Rockne, young athlete by Guernsey Van Riper

A biography focusing on the childhood of the legendaryu football coach at Notre Dame, who won fame for his insistence on good sportsmanship and his football strategy.

First publish date: 1959

Authors: Guernsey Van Riper

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📘 On this Rockne

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A short little mystery starring the Private Eye Phil Knight and his brilliant, morbidly obese, Notre Dame philosophy professor brother. This is the first of a series of mysteries set on the Notre Dame campus, which is where the author has a day job (he is also the author of the Father Dowling mysteries). Anyways, a university trustee has been murdered; then the prime suspect, her bitter ex-husband, is also killed. The duo quietly investigates until uncovering the conspiracy under it all. Not that gripping, but at a scant 200 pages it went fast

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