By Stephanie Laurens
"Penelope Adair, spouse and associate of beginner sleuth Barnaby Adair, is so highly pregnant she can't even waddle. whilst Barnaby is summoned to aid Inspector Stokes of Scotland backyard in investigating the violent homicide of a gentleman at a home social gathering, Penelope, pissed off that she can't take part, insists that she and Griselda, Stokes’s spouse, be saved trained in their husbands’ discoveries.
Yet what Barnaby and Stokes discover in basic terms ends up in extra questions. The murdered gentleman were thrown out of the home social gathering days ahead of, so why had he again? and the way and why did he come to have the incredible Finsbury diamond necklace in his pocket, a lot to Lord Finsbury’s consternation? so much abnormal of all, why had the assassin left the necklace, worthy a good looking fortune, at the body?
The conundrums compound as our intrepid investigators try to make experience of this baffling case. in the meantime, the specter of scandal grows ever extra tangible for all these attending the home social gathering – and the stakes are optimum for Lord Finsbury’s daughter and the gentleman who has spent the decade resurrecting his relations fortune so he can aspire to her hand. operating parallel to Barnaby and Stokes, the would-be fans hunt for a direction in the course of the maze of contradictory evidence to show the assassin, disperse the pall of scandal, and declare the affection and the shared existence they crave.
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Or Ignace a été nommé direc tement par Théodora. Il a été imposé au synode par une femme, et promu patriarche par la volonté d'une femme. « Le seigneur Taraise lui-même, répondit Ignace, a été promu patriarche par une femme ». « Ne dis pas une femme, rétorqua 38 CONSTANTINOPLE IV Michel III, car c'était une femme-empereur quand le seigneur Méthode et le seigneur Taraise furent faits patriarches » *. A la fin de la session, les commissaires impériaux eurent beau inviter Ignace à donner sa démission, c'est-à-dire à recon naître l'invalidité de son élection, ils ne purent le convaincre.
Le canon 3 réduisait à l'état laïc tous ceux que « le néophyte Photius, ravisseur du siège de Constantinople » avait élevés à une dignité ecclésiastique quelconque. A propos d'Ignace, le synode ordonnait et proclamait (can. 4), « de par l'autorité du juge suprême Jésus-Christ », qu'il n'était ni déposé ni anathématisé, n'ayant été chassé qu'en vertu de la puissance impériale et sans aucune autorité cano nique. « En vertu de la puissance octroyée par Dieu à saint Pierre », il était réintégré « dans son ancienne dignité, dans son rang et son patriarcat ».
C'est ainsi que la longue lettre que nous allons résumer a été rédigée par l'ancien cardinal-prêtre sur qui pesait encore une quadruple sentence de déposition. Dans sa résistance acharnée aux injonctions de Rome, le patriarche Photius trouve ainsi, paradoxalement, en l'antipape d'hier un adversaire à sa taille. La lettre pontificale * Proposueramus ». L'offensive de l'empereur byzantin, en obligeant le pape « à accorder sa lyre », comme écrit Nicolas, « à l'ire » de son correspondant, a eu comme heureux résultat de provoquer un document de première importance pour l'histoire de la pri mauté romaine et celle des rapports entre l'Église et l'État**.