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When Janet Mandelbaum, a pragmatic scholar, is appointed Harvard’s first female professor of English, the senior faculty are uneasy. A discreetly spiked drink at a campus tea party leads to her disappearance, then her death in the men’s restroom. Detective Kate Fansler, a resourceful college teacher and friend of Janet, is called in to untangle a web of jealousy, rivalry, and academic discrimination. Working within the Ivy League’s rigid hierarchy, Fansler uncovers motives hidden behind polite facades and battles an old boys’ network that refuses to admit a woman in its ranks.
First publish date: 1981
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Amanda Cross
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