A verger dies under mysterious circumstances. Among his belongings, and bequeathed in his will to his nephew, there are some very peculiar rolls of wallpaper, which are filled with his notes. It turns out that these notes concern diverse theological matters, but what seems somewhat odd, is that a great deal of them seem to be written in an unusually humorous spirit. The Verger is a thoughtful novel covering existential matters in a most different way.