The Professor and the Parson

Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non–Fiction This “amusing and elegantly written” romp takes readers on a wild ride through the life of Robert Parkin Peters ( The New York Times Book Review )—a liar, bigamist, and fraudulent priest who tricked some of the brightest minds of his generation One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor–Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that