Book III of the Father series. The St. Jude saga continues: Father Duddleswell is still tormenting his young green curate and no matter how hard Father Neil tries to steal a march on his wily senior, he finds himself in a worse fix than before. St Jude's is the place where anything can happen, and usually does. Billy Buzzle the Bookie falls madly in love with a pig, which Father Duddleswell kidnaps; a pious, rich widow turns out to be a kleptomaniac; the superb diagnostician is always at the whiskey and the only parishioner Father Neil can really trust is a former con-man!