Amanda Cross: An Imperfect Spy (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
'Intelligent analysis spiced with insights' -- Jessica Mann
'Thoroughly engaging... plus a witch of a twist' -- Sunday Times

Kate Fansler and her husband Reed are teaching at the Schuyler Law School. Enter the extraordinary elderly grey-haired Harriet, who styles herself after John Le Carré’s character, George Smiley. Harriet tantalises Kate into investigating the death of the only tenured female professor. It seems that even this proper institution of legal learning has some serious skeletons in its cupboards ... Once hooked, Kate’s obsession for the answers leads her to some sad and frightening truths even in her own marriage.
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Amanda Cross: An Imperfect Spy. A Kate Fansler Mystery. Virago Crime, ISBN: 1860490549 (December, 1996), 214 p., £6.99.

Amanda Cross: An Imperfect Spy (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
"FASCINATING... The dialogue is, as always, elegant and polished." -- Los Angeles Times
While guest-teaching a semester at Schuyler Law School, Kate Fansler gets to know an extraordinary secretary named Harriet, who patterns her life after John le Carré's character George Smiley. Harriet reveals that Schuyler has some erious skeletons swinging in its pertectly ppointed closets, including the fate ot Schuyler's only tenured female professor and a faculty wife who has killed her husband. As if Kate doesn't have enough to tackle, she is also up against the men who comprise the faculty of Schuyler itself--a thoroughly unapologetic bastion of white male power, mediocrity, and misogyny. Although she has only a few months or ampus, Kate refuses to let Schoyler's rigid ideals and insistence on secrecy suppress her indefatigable curiosity-or her obsession with the truth...

"Gross manages to keep this book as lighthearted and witty as any of the Kate Fansler mysteries, while depicting an institution as lethal as any cold war." -- Marilyn French
"A funny, snappish polemic on political correctitude that takes great relish in Kate's sardonic views." -- The New York Times Book Review

Amanda Cross: An Imperfect Spy. A Kate Fansler Mystery. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345390059 (January, 1996), 212 p., $5.99.

Amanda Cross: An Imperfect Spy (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
"A new Kate Fansler novel is always welcomed by those who appreciate Amanda Cross's elegant and intelligent heroine... Amanda Cross doesn't need blood or violence to make her novels eminently readable and satisfying." -- P.D. James Author of Original Sin

The New York Times Book Review has proclaimed that "if by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you." Now, in her long-awaited new novel, Amanda Cross continues to purvey pleasure to fans of her heroine, Kate Fansler. Kate is known for many things within the ivy-covered walls of her esteemed university, but inside or out, the brilliant teminist protessor is as renowned for her talent at crime solving as she is for her literary enthusiasms.

When Kate Fansler and her husband, Reed, decide to teach a semester at Schuyler Law School, they meet an extraordinary secretary who calls herself Harriet and patterns her life after John le Carré's character George Smiley. Harriet reveals to Kate that this very proper institution of legal learning has some serious skeletons swinging in its perfectly appointed closets.

Kate wanted this semester to be a quiet one, but she can't resist getting involved, especially when Harriet tantalizes her with some disturbing information about Schuyler's only tenured female professor. Then there's the faculty wife who has killed her husband. And if Kate doesn't have enough to tackle, she is also up against the men who comprise the faculty of Schuyler itself-a thoroughly unapologetic bastion of white male power, mediocrity, and misogyny.

Although she has only a few months on campus, Kate refuses to let Schuyler's rigid ideals and insistence on secrecy suppress her indefatigable curiosity -- or her obsession with the truth...

AMANDA CROSS is the pseudonymous author of the popular Kate Fansler mysteries, of which An Imperfect Spy is the eleventh. As Carolyn G. Heilbrun, she is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Columbia University, and the author of Writing a Woman's Life and other works of literary criticism.

Amanda Cross: An Imperfect Spy. A Kate Fansler Novel. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345389174 (January, 1995), 228 p., $20.00.