THE GHOSTS OF GRACE CATHEDRAL: "Father, Son and Holy Ghost"

If you love ghosts stories you will bristle at this crème de le crème account of the supernatural with astounding proof of the hereafter. But this chronicle is not only about ghosts: Carl Tooley, MD, takes on his late father’s experiments. His daughter Vivian, and her ambivalence about an abortion and her vivacious presence give vitality to the story. Sam Stone, retired professor and Carl’s mentor is shot while in flagrant delecto along with his paramour, Lydia Domintrope. Lydia’s husband, a pathologist killed in WW II had removed from a crime lab, Carl’s father’s brain and mailed it to her where it remained in her attic for 40 years. Carl’s father, also, an MD, was deemed a suicide. Carl sought to prove it was not by using his father’s experiments in retrieving images from dead brains to record their memories showing via video his murderer. A deceased Bishop comes into the story. The late prelate is a ghost that is ghost ridden. Tanya Pavlov, an RN has affaire with Carl. She tells him “In my country screwing is what one gives, here it is what one gets” Boris Ivanovitch. Carl’s lab assistant whose old world humor helps keep in perspective the gravity of their experiments. “In Russia we deal with spies…tie balls to ankles then push downstairs.” Humphry Sellers, married to bisexual African American, suffering from gender dysphoria causes him to consider suicide after she bites off his manhood. Tony Fellucci, a maverick cop, tells Carl, “In your profession you examine the living in order to exploit the dead. In mine, we examine the dead in order to exploit the living” Maggie, a corpulent CIA agent, coerces Carl to hand over his research, “It’s either you give or we take. My men can be real pricks and I a real bitch!”