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Murder Is Academic: A Cambridge Mystery
Murder Is Academic: A Cambridge Mystery
Murder Is Academic: A Cambridge Mystery
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Murder Is Academic: A Cambridge Mystery

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All is not well at Cambridge University's St. Ethelreda's College. The head of the English Department is dead, and Professor Cassandra James is appointed the task of running the department. Faced with the choice of whipping her underperforming colleagues into shape or losing the much-needed funding for the program, Cassandra resigns herself to the challenge. However, when she stumbles upon the former head's private papers and realizes that the death was no accident, Cassandra is forced to use her academic expertise of solving obscure literary puzzles for a very different purpose: tracking down a killer.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 15, 2004
ISBN9781466842328
Murder Is Academic: A Cambridge Mystery
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Christine Poulson

Before Christine Poulson turned to writing crime novels, she was an academic with a PhD in History of Art and had published widely on nineteenth century art and literature. Her Cassandra James mysteries are set in Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Deep Water, Cold, Cold Heart, and An Air That Kills. Her short stories, published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, CWA anthologies, and elsewhere, have been short-listed for a Derringer, the Margery Allingham Prize, and the CWA Short Story Dagger.

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    A perfectly good short academic mystery story. Highly enjoyable with some decent twists.
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    Really enjoyed the descriptions, and the gradual evolution of Cass's relationship with Stephen. Book started in summer; much of the action takes place in late fall and winter.

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