Death with Dostoevsky
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Publisher Description
An intelligent traditional mystery that stars an endearing woman of a certain age who draws on her knowledge of literature to solve crimes Library Journal on Arsenic with Austen
Professor Emily Cavanaugh makes a horrific discovery while writing her book on Dostoevsky in the entertaining fourth Crime with the Classics cozy.
Professor Emily Cavanaugh has left Windy Corner behind and is back at Reed College on her sabbatical, determined to finish writing her book on Dostoevsky. She is soon reunited with one of her promising students, Daniel Razumov, as well as familiar faces on the teaching staff – her friend, Marguerite Grenier, her half-brother, Oscar Lansing, the abrasive division chair, Richard McClintock, and the predatory Taylor Curzon. Known for her relentless pursuit of young male students, Taylor now has Daniel firmly in her sights.
Emily knows Taylor must be stopped, but as she starts gathering evidence of Daniel's harassment, she has a disturbing flashback, and then makes a gruesome discovery . . . Can Emily catch a dangerous campus killer while also confronting events from her own past?
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Hyde's lively fourth Crime with the Classics mystery (after Cyanide with Christie) finds Prof. Emily Cavanaugh back at Bede College in Portland, Ore., to research and eventually write "the definitive English-language work on Dostoevsky's tormented relationship with his Orthodox faith as it played out in his fiction." She shares a study area with Daniel Razumov, a former student of hers, who has become the new target of Taylor Curzon, a 40-something professor with a habit of "sinking her teeth into a different piece of fresh young male meat each semester." When Taylor ends up beaten to death, all the evidence points to Daniel, who has no alibi, nor does he have any memory of the time the crime was committed. Emily steps up to investigate and soon uncovers plenty of other suspects. She lays out her reasoning in such a way as to allow the reader to follow her thoughts, but not necessarily beat her to the crime's solution. Campus hijinks and budding romances complement the satisfying fair-play plot.
