Amanda Cross: Poetic Justice (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
It's New York City, 1970, and student riots have ravaged the university where Professor Kate Fansler teaches Victorian literature to mature students. The survival of the University College is in doubt, especially as their President Jeremiah Cudlipp is determined to shut it down.

In the midst of balancing dissertation proposals with the politics of academia, Kate is faced with insurmountable odds. But armed with a handful of rebellious colleagues, the poetry of W. H. Auden, and her new fiancé, she is not one to give up.

Kate is willing to fight to the death for her college, but only a miracle - or perhaps a murder - can save their beloved institution...

Littered with verses of Auden, Amanda Cross's Poetic Justice is a passionate and gripping mystery. Follow amateur sleuth Kate Fansler in this murder mystery series, continuing with The Theban Mysteries and The Question of Max.

Amanda Cross: Poetic Justice. Pan Macmillan / Bello, ISBN: 9781509820054 (March, 2018), 166 p., £10.99, eBook £3.99.

Amanda Cross: Poetic Justice (USA 2001)

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"FOR MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AMANDA CROSS HAS BEEN BLAZING A TRAIL FOR THE REST OF US TO FOLLOW." -- SARA PARETSKY
Student riots have ravaged the distinguished New York City university where Kate Fansler teaches. In the ensuing disarray, the survival of the university's plebeian stepchild, University College, seems doubtful. President Jeremiah Cudlipp is snobbishly determined to ax it; and as sycophantic professors fall in line behind him, the rally of Kate and a few rebellious colleagues seems doomed. It is a fight to the death, and only a miracle -- or perhaps a murder-can save their beloved institution....

"Cross knows a university when she sees one... . and with the same expertise she slips in a bit of homicide, much wit, and lashings of the greatest poetry of this century-Poetic Justice indeed." -- JACQUES BARZUN
"[A) dazzling display of elegance of language." -- The New York Times Book Review
"No one has a sharper eye than Amanda Cross." -- The Washington Post Book World

Amanda Cross: Poetic Justice. A Kate Fansler Mystery. Fawcett Books, ISBN: 0449007030 (February, 2001), 213 p., $6.50.

Amanda Cross: Poetic Justice (USA 1979 / 3rd printing)

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"A bit of homicide, much wit, and lashings of the greatest poetry of the century - Poetic Justice indeed." Jacques Barzun
Kate Fansler is a willowy beauty who teaches Victorian literature and has a passion for the poems of W.H. Auden-poems that take on new meaning when death brings mystery to a great New York university. Reed Amhearst, of the D.A's office, is her fiance -- and the man investigating the death of one of Kate's arch adversaries.

The death was either innocently accidental or diabolically planned-with an uncomfortable number of motives pointed directly at Kate and her friends. And perhaps most sinister, the death occurred at a party given in Kate's honor.

In the subtle strokes of a master crimestoryteller, Amanda Cross bares the heart of a mystery and the heartbeat of a love story.

Amanda Cross: Poetic Justice. A simple headache... two common aspirin... and a scholar's prescription for death... A Kate Fansler Novel. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380442221 (July 1979 / 3rd printing, no date given), 169 p., $2.95.

Amanda Cross: Poetic Justice (USA 1973)

From the Publisher:
THE AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL CRIME NOVEL AT ITS BRIGHTEST AND BEST.
Kate Fansler, professor of English literature at a large metropolitan university, is intellectually in love with poet W. H. Auden and indeed in love with, and engaged to, Reed Amhearst of the D. A.'s office. The campus is ripped by an internal power struggle and student dissent. Kate finds herself in the throes of the revolutionary crisis and witness to the violent death of a respected colleague.

"Amanda Cross knows a university when she sees one (which takes some doing these days) and with the same expertise she slips in a bit of homicide, much wit, and lashings of the Poetic Justice indeed Greatest poetry of this century." -- JACQUES BARZUN
"... Auden's poetry is neatly carved to serve as epigraphs for each chapter as well as rich chunks of the text. Miss Cross's skill is such that authors ought to be lining up and begging to be the entree for her next concoction." -- ALICE CROMIE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"... dazzling display of elegance of language." -- ALLEN J. HUBIN, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Amanda Cross: Poetic Justice. A Kate Fansler Novel. New York: Warner, 1973, Warner Paperback Library #75-126, 169 p., ¢95.