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From the master of literary crime fiction: the latest novel in the legendary series about academic sleuth Kate Fansler, and the highly anticipated sequel to The Puzzled Heart -- A Main Selection of the Mystery Guild "Nobody here is very lovable, but Charles took offensiveness to a new level". So goes one colleague's evaluation of Charles Haycock, professor of Victorian literature and an admirer of Alfred Lord Tennyson. He's antifeminist and misogynistic. And now he's a murder victim -- owing to a lethal dose of Digoxin pills added to his retsina. Whodunit? That's what Professor Haycock's son has hired private investigator Estelle "Woody" Woodhaven to determine. But Woody, who confesses that her "usual tasks involve divorce, theft, blackmail, suspicions of commercial cheating", is feeling "a bit beyond her scope". And so she approaches Kate Fansler, a past solver of academic crime, to be her consultant.
