Son of Murder Inc.: Man in a Cassock

Matthew the orphaned son of a Murder Inc. killer is a loose cannon in a notorious neighborhood. As an infant he was entrusted by his father to the then prison chaplain Francis Campion who is now the rector of the Lake Shore Seminary who was sworn not to reveal the identity of the father to his son which he has honored. Matthew at nineteen is left a small inheritance by an unknown donor. Determined to learn his true identity he bolts the seminary in a quest to discover the facts of his birth. The young seminarian discovers his father was executed as a gang member of the syndicate Murder Inc. Was his father framed? Must he seek vindication or revenge?All is tested when Matthew is tried for the murder of Detective James Tierney who testified against Matthew’s father as a wheelman for the mob. In his last confession Matthew’s father said he was innocent and that his attorney was co-opted to convict him. Campion fears that the same might happen to Matthew. He decides to defend him. He is a lawyer in canon law. The court and the press are dismayed—did this hayseed priest imagine the practice of criminal law was a religious exercise?