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Author: Victor L. Whitechurch

📘 The Canon in residence by Victor L. Whitechurch

Vicar John Smith of Market Shapborough experiences an unsettling encounter while vacationing in Switzerland, during which a stranger replaces his clothes with his own and disappears. Left without his clerical garments, Smith returns with altered views on his fellow man. He accepts a canonry at Frattenbury Cathedral, where his changed attitudes and behaviors shock the community.

First publish date: 1913

Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction

Authors: Victor L. Whitechurch

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