Urban the Ninth

Urban the Ninth

Author(s)	Bruce Marshall
Country	Scotland
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publication date	1973
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	192
ISBN	0 09 458990 9
Preceded by	The Black Oxen (1972)
Followed by	Operation Iscariot (1974)

Urban the Ninth is a 1973 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall.

Plot summary

Catholic thriller - In 1990, Urban the Ninth takes over the papacy after Pope Marx I (successor of Leo XIV and Pius XIII) dies in an air crash. Urban IX has to face the Third Secret of Fatima (which had not yet been revealed in 1973) and a mysterious woman: perhaps, Pope Marx's secret lover.

Works by Bruce Marshall

Novels	A Thief in the Night (ca 1918) This Sorry Scheme (1924) The Stooping Venus (1926) Teacup Terrace (1926) And There Were Giants (1927) The Other Mary (1927) High Brows (1929) The Little Friend (1929) The Rough House, a possibility (1930) Children of This Earth (1930) Father Malachy's Miracle (1931) Prayer for the Living (1934) The Uncertain Glory (1935) Canon to the Right of Them (1936) Luckypenny (1937) Delilah Upside Down, a Tract, with a Thrill (1941) Yellow Tapers for Paris (1943) The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith (1944) George Brown's Schooldays (1946) Vespers in Vienna (1947) To Every Man a Penny (1949) The Fair Bride (1953) Only Fade Away (1954) Girl in May (1956) The Accounting (1958) A Thread of Scarlet (1959) The Divided Lady (1960) A Girl from Lübeck (1962) The Month of the Falling Leaves (1963) Father Hilary's Holiday (1965) The Bishop (1970) The Black Oxen (1972) Urban the Ninth (1973) Operation Iscariot (1974) Marx the First (1975) Peter the Second (1976) The Yellow Streak (1977) Prayer for a Concubine (1978) Flutter in the Dovecote (1986) A Foot in the Grave (1987) An Account of Capers (1988)

Non-fiction	The White Rabbit (1953) Thoughts of My Cats (1954)

Other	Contribution to A Time to Laugh (1949) "The Curé of Ars," chapter in Saints for Now (1952) Introduction to Rue Notre Dame (1953) Foreword to Top Secret Mission (1955)