Amanda Cross: No Word from Winifred (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
Amanda Cross captivates us with strong women and astounding adventure in this gripping mystery, No Word From Winifred.
Literature Professor Kate Fansler is asked once again to turn her talents to private investigation when Winifred Ashby - honorary niece of Oxford scholar and novelist Charlotte Stanton - inexplicably disappears from her quiet farmhand life.

Using Winifred's journal and Charlotte's novels as her only available sources, Kate must follow a convoluted trail through Oxford to Santa Cruz before finally untangling the secrets of Winifred's past.

But Kate's investigation reveals far more than she anticipated as sinister issues of illegitimacy and inheritance arise...

Follow amateur sleuth Kate Fansler in this gripping murder mystery series, continuing with A Trap for Fools and The Players Come Again.

Amanda Cross: No Word from Winifred. Bello / Pan Macmillan, ISBN: 9781509820146 (March, 2018), 194 p., £10.99, eBook £3.99.

Amanda Cross: No Word from Winifred (UK 1994)

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'Peopled with strong women... rich with ideas' - Publishers Weekly
Kate Fansler, Professor of English, is called once more from academic life to investigate when Winifred Ashby vanishes mysteriously after meeting with the man she has approved as her novelist 'aunt's' official biographer. Can her baffling disappearance, as Kate feels in her bones, mean that Winifred is dead? Following a trail from Oxford to New York, this highly entertaining novel subtly explores the riddles of friendship, inheritance, illegitimacy and passion.

Amanda Cross: No Word from Winifred. A Kate Fansler Mystery. London: Virago Crime, 1994, ISBN: 0860688534, 217 p., £5.99.

Amanda Cross: No Word from Winifred (USA 1987)

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"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

At a stuffy law firm party given by her stuffy brother. Professor Kate Fansier hears of an intriguing mystery.

It seems that a woman named Winifred is missing. The honorary niece of the renowned British novelist Charlotte Stanton, Winifred had been, of all things, milking cows on a New England dairy farm when' found by the young woman who wants to write Charlotte Stanton's biography. But soon after agreeing to cooperate. Winifred disappears. And the would-be biographer desperately needs Kate's help in finding her.

So Kate must look for clues -- in Winifred's journal, in Charlotte Stanton's novels, and finally at an enormous MLA convention in New York City, where secrets and intrigue prove far more interesting to Kate than lectures on such esoteric subjects as sixteenth century Spanish mysticism. Mysteries -- and this one is pure delight -- are much more to Kate Fansier's liking.

"Cross has written one of her very best works-the characters, the mystery, the background, and the motivations all fit together and make for a literate work that's a pleasure to read." -- The Journal-American

Amanda Cross: No Word from Winifred. A strange disappearance and a marriage gone wrong teach Professor Kate Fansler a lesson in life. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345333810 (October, 1987), 194 p., $3.95.