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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach "The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery" class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain's hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking scandal in the school newspaper erupts in a suicide and two violent deaths, Professor Laurance enlists the talents of her new hubby, private eye Max Darling, and dons her thinking cap to show more probe intrigue and vengeance among Chastain's faculty.A Dangerous Thing
Max and Annie, with dubious help from three of their own great ladies of the mystery — Annie's pixilated mother-in-law, a batty local dowager, and a Christie crime fanatic — learn that just about everyone at the school had means, motive, and access to the murder weapons. From the secretly boozing professor of advertising to the muscle-bound campus cad who barters passing grades for a little extracurricular activity, anyone on the faculty is... show less
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husband and wife and three mystery fans investigate killings in journalism dept.
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Sticking to the conventions established in her earlier novels, Ms. Hart fluffs up her lank plot with overwrought comic theatrics and chirpy, if irrelevant, commentary on the well-mannered school of crime literature that appeals to her rather insular tastes.
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Carolyn G. Hart is the author of eight award-winning Death on Demand mysteries and four Henrie O mysteries. The first writer to win all three major mystery awards--the Agatha, the Anthony, and the Macavity--for her novels, Hart is the former president of the organization Sisters in Crime. Hart's first novel in her mystery series, entitled Death on show more Demand, focuses on prime murder suspect Annie Laurance Darling and her attempt to clear her tarnished name. Some of the other novels in the series include Something Wicked, winner of the Agatha Award in 1988 and the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 1989, Design for Murder, and Honeymoon with Murder, which won the Anthony Award in 1990. Letter From Home also won the Agatha Award for Best Novel in 2003. Her latest novel is entitled, The Devereaux Legacy. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Little Class on Murder
- Original publication date
- 1989
- People/Characters
- Annie Darling
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- English
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