Amanda Cross: A Trap for Fools (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
Taking its name from a Rudyard Kipling poem and littered with his verses throughout, A Trap for Fools is a novel about overcoming adversity, and one of Amanda Cross's best mysteries.

Campus security found the body of Canfield Adams early on Sunday morning, seven stories below the open window of his office. To the police there is one easy assumption, but anyone who knew Canfield knows he would never have jumped.

University officials ask literature Professor and amateur sleuth Kate Fansler to investigate the death of their precious professor, and she find a myriad of people, both on and off campus, who could have pushed him. However, Kate suspects the university has an ulterior motive... and she herself is not sure she wants to succeed, for the murderer may be someone she cares about, a student, a colleague, a friend?

'If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you' -- New York Times Book Review

Follow amateur sleuth Kate Fansler in this gripping murder mystery series, continuing with The Players Come Again.

Amanda Cross: A Trap for Fools. Bello / Pan Macmillan, ISBN: 9781509820177 (March, 2018), 150 p., £10.99, eBook £3.99.

Amanda Cross: A Trap for Fools (USA 1990)

From the Publisher:
"If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you." -- The New York Times Book Review
"No one has a sharper eye than Amanda Cross." -- The Washington Post Book World

When the body of Canfield Adams, a professor of Middle Eastern culture, is found on the pavement seven stories below his open office window, the police see no evidence of foul play. But university officials know that Adams was not one to have jumped out of a window, and there were numerous people-on campus and off -- who would have relished pushing him. If the mystery is not resolved, the school may face a hefty lawsuit from the grieving widow. And so they have asked Kate to investigate. The trouble is Kate suspects that the administration is setting her up to fail, and she herself is not sure she wants to succeed. For the murderer may well be a student she cares about... or a colleague... or even a friend...

"Amanda Cross writes wonderfully witty mysteries full of well-developed characters and insight on modern faibles." -- UPI

Amanda Cross: A Trap for Fools. The puzzling death of a fellow professor ads Kate Fansler to search among her own colleagues and friends for a murderer. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 034535947X (February, 1990), 213 p., $4.95.

Amanda Cross: A Trap for Fools (UK 1990)

From the Publisher:
'Witty, highly intelligent and marvellously entertaining' - Publishers Weekly
When the body of Canfield Adams, professor of Middle Eastern culture, is found on the pavement seven storeys below his office, Kate Fansler, English professor and amateur sleuth, is called in. While Adams was the most unlikely man to jump from a window, there was no shortage of people who would have dearly loved to push him. The university is loath to charge the police's chief suspect, an outspoken black lecturer, as it could lead to an outbreak of racial warfare on campus. Kate suspects the administration is setting her up to fail. What to do? Can her wide experience of reading between the lines aid her in this most elusive crime?

Amanda Cross: A Trap for Fools. A Kate Fansler Mystery. Virago Crime, ISBN: 1853810932 (January, 1990), 154 p., £4.99.