Flutter in the Dovecote

Flutter in the Dovecote is a 1986 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall.

Plot introduction

It's a comic tale of a Catholic Bishop who learns that a surrealist painting donated to a Mother Superior is in reality indecent. In some way Intelligence services of various countries become involved.

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)