Harry Dee: or Working It Out (The Tom Playfair Series Book 3)

Harry Dee is the third and final book in Fr. Francis Finn's series about Tom Playfair and his friends from St. Maure's boarding school. Harry Dee arrives at St. Maure's traumatized by the murder of his uncle, and by the fact that all the clues point to his beloved nurse as the killer. At St. Maure's, he meets Tom Playfair and his group of friends, who work on making him well physically, mentally, and spiritually. As he goes through a number of schoolboy adventures, such as baseball games, boating trips gone awry, and scholarly competitions, he attempts to solve the mystery of his missing nurse, who disappeared on the night of the murder, and tries to fully recover from his horrible experience. With the help of Tom, Percy, Harry Quip, and the rest of the St. Maure's gang, Harry is able to become a normal boy, until a night spent in his dead uncle's house, which is popularly thought to be haunted, resolves the mystery and gives him his vocation. In the background, all of the boys of St. Maure's are growing up and trying to find their personal callings in life. All around a great read, and a perfect wrap-up to the Tom Playfair series.

About the Author

Father Francis J. Finn was born to Irish immigrant parents at St. Louis, Missouri in 1859. He loved to read Charles Dickens works as a boy, including The Pickwick Papers, and eventually became a priest thanks to the influence of Father Charles Coppens. After graduating from St. Louis University, he became a Jesuit and was ordained a priest in 1893. He had already begun writing his debut novel Tom Playfair prior to this, as he was assigned to St. Mary s College in Kansas and dealt with unruly boys on a daily basis. He went on to write twenty-seven other books, and his novels for children were very successful. He was much loved by young people, and thousands of them gathered to honor his death in 1928. Francis Finn also wrote That Football Game, Claude Lightfoot, Ethelred Preston, Lucky Bob, His Luckiest Year, Facing Danger, and Cupid of Champion.

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