Sister Mary Helen mysteries

Sister Mary Helen is sinfully good at snooping through the San Francisco fog. Now a fellow OWL (Older Woman's League) member has disappeared. The police believe Erma Duran simply flew the coop, but Sister feels a Higher Authority pushing her to investigate. A gold medal entangled in Erma's bedsprings and a cryptic clue to a Byzantine madonna deepens the mystery. By the time Police Inspector Kate Murphy joins the hunt, Sister's good intentions have...

When the head of St. Francis College dies suddenly and is replaced by the coldly efficient Sister Patricia, Sister Mary Helen fears she will be swept aside as too old in the "clean sweep" Patricia is famous for in the order. To Helen's rescue comes the much younger Sister Anne, who runs a shelter for homeless women. Although Anne doubts that Mary Helen can deal with the women there, kindness leads her to ask the nun to volunteer. Anne quickly learns...

While attending the Oyster Festival in the village of Ballyclarin, Ireland, with Sister Eileen, Sister Mary Helen finds a corpse in the ladies' room of the Monk's Table, a local pub, and assists the Irish police in solving the crime.