Word: fansler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is the premise of Death in a Tenured Position, the latest mystery by Amanda Cross. For the uninitiated. Cross novels feature the redoubtable Kate Fansler, a tenured 16th-century English literature professor at a New York City university, much like Columbia. Fortyish, WASPish, with a casual marriage to an assistant district attorney and a prodigious capacity for alcohol. Fansler moonlights as an academic sleuth. Leaving details like fingerprints and forensics to the police. Fansler sleuths by intuition and cunning. She does not carry...
...question is Janet Mandelbaum, the first owner of the endowed chair. An impressive scholar of dubious social skills. Mandelbaum finds a cold welcome in Warren House, the Holy See of Harvard English. As the title suggests, she winds up with a lot worse than a cold shoulder, and Professor Fansler is summoned to find out exactly what happened...
...Fansler hustles a fellowship at Radcliffe and moves to Cambridge--Dunster House, specifically--to unravel the sordid tale. When Fansler makes it to Harvard, remarkably few events occur. The body of her story is little action and lots of chat and gossip and more chat--Robert Ludlum...