Amanda Cross: Death in a Tenured Position (USA 1993)

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

It's only because Janet Mandelbaum is no feminist that the stuffy old boys of Harvard agree to make her the first woman professor in the English Department. But they're not happy about it. At a sedate and proper afternoon tea, someone slips a mickey into Janet's Campari and she's found by the police in a most compromising position-drunk on the floor in the ladies' room. That's when sophisticated sleuth Kate Fansler shows up to help her old friend figure out who's after her. But before she does, Janet is found dead -- this time in the men's room...

"Funny... Well plotted... Even delicious." -- Newsday

Amanda Cross: Death in a Tenured Position. She was the first female professor in Harvard's English Department - and the first body to be found on campus. Kate Fansler must find her killer... A Kate Fansler Mystery. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345340418 (May, 1993), 196 p., $4.95.

Amanda Cross: A Death in the Faculty (UK 1988)

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Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award for mystery fiction in 1981
Kate Fansler, Professor of Literature and amateur sleuth, is once again called upon to use her exceptional talents -- this time to solve the curious scandal surrounding a friend from graduate school. Janet Mandelbaum is appointed the first female Professor of English at Harvard after a million dollars is left to the faculty provided a woman is hired. Despite this 'beastly condition, the all-male committee choose Janet as the safest bet: a 'sound' scholar with no feminist leanings, who is happy to be accepted as 'one of the boys'. Weeks after her arrival, Janet is found drunk in the bathroom with a radical feminist during the faculty party. It becomes obvious that Janet has been framed. But why, and by whom? A few days later Janet is found dead.

Kate's investigation seems at first to lead nowhere until, with typical genius, she unearths the strange literary clues which finally resolve the mystery of the death in the faculty. In this briliantly observed novel, Amanda Cross, with her usual wit and dexterity, pokes fun at the male-chauvinist establishment and the pomposity of academia.

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

Amanda Cross: A Death in the Faculty. A New Kate Fansler Mystery. Virago Press, ISBN: 0860688968 (January, 1988), 156 p., £3.95.

Amanda Cross: Death in a Tenured Position (USA 1982)

From the Publisher:
"FUNNY. WELL PLOTTED... EVEN DELICIOUS!" -- Newsday
It's only because Janet Mandelbaum is no feminist that the stuffy old boys of Harvard agree to make her the first woman professor in the English department. But they re not happy about it. At a sedate and proper afternoon tea, someone slips a mickey into Janet's Campari and she's found by the police in a most compromising position - drunk on the floor in the ladies room. That's when sophisticated sleuth Kate Fansler shows up to help her old friend figure our who's after her. But before she does, Janet is found dead -- this time in the mens room...

"NO ONE HAS A SHARPER EYE THAN AMANDA CROSS!" -- Washington Post Book World

Amanda Cross: Death in a Tenured Position. A Kate Fansler Mystery. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 034530215X (May, 1982), 165 p., $2.50.