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Joanne Dobson Cold and Pure and Very Dead: A Karen Pelletier Mystery (Karen Pelletier Mysteries)
Doubleday 2000 0385493401 / 9780385493406 Hardcover Very Good
"clean, tight, unmarked, (Fine with Fine Dust Jacket)Edge handling.() English professor Karen Pelletier is well known for her provocative manner and iconoclastic opinions, so it's no surprise that she perversely cites a commercial novel from the 1950s when asked to named the greatest book of the twentieth century. The only work by Mildred Deakin, who disappeared from public view shortly after its publication, Satan Mills quickly becomes the hottest book around. It's the center of contentious arguments in academic circles, climbs onto The New York Times bestseller list, and receives the coveted honor of being an Oprah Book Club selection. At the height of the frenzy, a reporter who discovers the reclusive author in rural upstate New York is found dead in her driveway. Could Deakin have been so protective of her privacy that she'd shoot someone to protect it? Called in to help with the investigation, Karen learns that the scandalous happenings at the heart of Satan Mills were more au ID: mon0000067830"
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Joanne Dobson The Raven and the Nightingale
Bantam 2000 0553579991 / 9780553579994 Mass Market Paperback Very Good
"Paperback, Very Good, clean, tight, unmarked, light cover edgewear.() An unexpected bequest sends waves of violence through the placid groves of academe in Joanne Dobson's third mystery to feature Professor Karen Pelletier. Still untenured, and therefore on shaky academic ground, feisty young Enfield College professor Pelletier finds herself going head-to-head with the resident Edgar Allan Poe expert, Elliot Corbin, an academic windbag of monumental proportions who is lobbying to be appointed to the much-coveted and recently vacated Palaver Chair. So when Karen receives a serendipitous bonanza in the form of never-before-seen manuscripts and journals by the nineteenth-century poet Emmeline Foster, who is rumored to have killed herself for the love of Poe, Corbin is predictably put out. Subsequently, the corrosive Corbin is stabbed to death in his home on Thanksgiving Day. Karen has an airtight alibi, but other suspects abound--from the head of the women's studies program, who also ID: mon0000018366"
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