Synopses & Reviews
Chaos hits the State University of Michigan when two bitterly rival Edith Wharton societies are brought together for the same conference. Its reluctant organizer, Professor Nick Hoffman, is desperate to get tenure, and when there's a murder, his only chance of saving his academic career is finding the killer.
Review
[A] maliciously funny campus mystery...Rahael has marvous recall of the entertaining world he left behind." --Marilyn Stasio,
The New York Times Book Review"A witty fast-paced mystery that is also a hilarious send-up of academia at its quietly snarling worst." --Booklist
"Lev Raphael skewers academic pretenstions with wicked glee [and] Dickensian flair. Few writers are as adept at lampooning academic inanity." --Chicago Sun-Times
"The groves of academe have never been bitchier." --Denver Post
"Marvelous humor and satisfying mystery...wickedly funny." --Drood Review of Mystery
"Bright, breezy, and laugh-aloud funny." --Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
About the Author
An escaped academic,
Lev Raphael is the "Mysteries" columnist for the
Detroit Free Press and reviews books for Michigan Radio. He lives in Okemos, Michigan.