Death in a Tenured Position (Kate Fansler Novels)
by:
Amanda Cross (author)
When Janet Mandelbaum is made the first woman professor at Harvard's English Department, the men are not happy. They are unhappier still when her tea is spiked and she is found drunk on the floor of the women's room. With a little time, Janet's dear friend and colleague Kate Fansler could track...
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When Janet Mandelbaum is made the first woman professor at Harvard's English Department, the men are not happy. They are unhappier still when her tea is spiked and she is found drunk on the floor of the women's room. With a little time, Janet's dear friend and colleague Kate Fansler could track down the culprit, but time is running out....
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345340412 (0345340418)
ASIN: 0345340418
Publish date: 1986-06-12
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Set in late 70's, very early 80's this is more an atmospheric mystery than a whodunnit mystery. Kate Fansler comes to the rescue of the first tenured English Literature woman professor at Havard when she finds herself involve in a scandal. Was she set up? Professor Mandelbaum can't really defend her...
[These notes were made in 1982:]. Yet another in the rash of academic - in fact "English department" - novels I've come across lately; they seem to be forming a whole genre on their own, as more and more writers attach themselves to universities for support (or is it as more and more university peop...