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Mark McGarrity, author of mystery series under pen name Bartholomew Gill, dies at 58 from fall (AP, July 5, 2002)

Author and columnist Mark McGarrity, who wrote mysteries under the name Bartholomew Gill featuring the witty, shrewd Irish detective Peter McGarr, died Thursday when he fell from a stairway. He was 58.

Though he was born and raised in Holyoke, Mass., McGarrity's works drew on his Irish heritage and his knowledge of the country's history. He had earned a master's degree in literature from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, after graduating from Brown University in 1966.

I will be eternally grateful to Mr. McGarrity/Gill for his book The Death of a Joyce Scholar: A Peter McGarr Mystery (1989), which contains the most useful analysis of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett that you'll ever find. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 13, 2002 12:42 PM