The boring rubbish continues in the type of an “open novel”, as if we were not “nourished enough” with the “historical” rubbish! (Morris Leblanc, LE MEURTRE de L’Abbé S’Nière, Editions Arqa, 2023).

The one who hides behind the nickname of Morris Leblanc must have had fun writing The Murder of the Abbot S’Nière (Arqa 2023) and allowed me (a certain person heavily addicted to H. P. Lovecraft and his horrible squids) to have a great time. The Prefaciers (Christian Doumergue and Tony Baillargeat) suggest that it is a work with keys, concealing heavy esoteric secrets on which the shadows hang of Parvulesco. Maybe. But for me, it’s a great thriller that I have devoured, with a smile on their lips because of the multitude of sanitizing winks what this big book offers us. No matter the chronological likelihood, to fire the terribly transparent pseudonyms, and forward in this hair-wound adventure.

“Father S’Aunière is charged by his bishop (Billiard), a member of the Company de Pie, to find a sulphurous file, the Polypus file, and to do so disappear in the dark Vatican Archives. It will cost the life of one of his colleagues (Gelis) who owned part of it. This will also be worth the existence to a young American, Lovecraft, investigating in London the murders of Jack the Ripper. This promising pen had also been commissioned by the Episcopalians to get your hands on the file. What he will do through his donation of “transmission archives “by dry means”. Unfortunately, several sheets will be lost during the transfer operation and the abbot will seek to locate them with the help of his mistress, the Diva of the Century, who was also an excellent clairvoyant. We will then participate in a scholarly tour of France, the researcher having in his kicks the Jesuit William of Baskerville, also in search of documents for the AA account (one is obviously eating our noses within the Catholic Church!). The Jesuit is all the more formidable since it benefits from The Complicit Friendship of Jean Orth. We will understand, as we reconstruction of the scrolls, that it is the account of the true life of Christ. He had a twin brother who will be crucified in his place. The help of the abbot Debout, learned parish priest of Rennes-les-Grenouilles, will be indispensable for decrypt the old languages used to write documents. The Father Is Boring make a final stage in his farm near Sougraigne, held by Claire and Antoine and where the basement is exploited, containing invaluable treasures historical, melted on the spot (ah, the Pech of En Couty!). The final will take the shape of a duel with the Jesuit, at the top of the Bugarach, where our abbot will lose Life. But is that the end? I won't plunder the surprising fall which allows us to witness an amazing NDE!

The characters are All more disheartening than each other. We learn that the family name of the servant of the priest was Denarnaud-Cthulhu. The abbot also had a man to doing everything, a dwarf who responded to the paronym of Asmodeus and did not feed that blue apples, supplied by a discreet merchant of the Saint-Germain market, near the home of the abbé rue Léoncourt. The abbot, for his part, was a good one alive, amateur of pretty women and good tables. His tour of France does not will not only be tourist-historic, but also gastronomic to the Discovering local specialities.”

We'll finally point out that the saga is riddled with references to multiple secret societies with their “good” and their “bad guys”: besides the AA, the Company of Pie and the Episcopalians already mentioned, we meet La Sapinière, La fila Etheria of Moldova, The Great Lunar, the Golden Valley Hier, the eye of Horus within the Society of the People of Letters, The Official Dei, The Brothers of Light, The Priory of Zion, The Circle of Narbonne...