Amanda Cross: The Theban Mysteries (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
Literature professor and amateur sleuth Kate Fansler is taking a well-earned sabbatical with her new husband, Reed. However, her martini filled evenings are soon interrupted by a desperate appeal from her former and beloved Theban School to cover classes on Antigone.

Not wanting to deprive students from Antigone's brilliance she rushes to New York, finding the Greek heroine's subversive will mirrored in her students who are caught up in the rebellion of protests, sex, and drugs.

All is fun and chaos until a dead body is discovered in the old school building, can Kate get to the bottom of this sinister literary allusion?

Amanda Cross's The Theban Mysteries will take you back to your school years and capture your attention till the very end.
Follow amateur sleuth Kate Fansler in this gripping murder mystery series, continuing with The Question of Max and No Word From Winifred.

Amanda Cross: The Theban Mysteries. Pan Macmillan / Bello, ISBN: 9781509820085 (March, 2018), 170 p., £10.99, eBook £3.99.

Amanda Cross: The Theban Mysteries (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
For a century, wealthy New York girls have been trained for the rigors of upper class life at the Theban, an exclusive private school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Kate Fansler is lured back to her alma mater to teach a seminar on Antigone. But a hostile note addressed to Kate, the uniform mistrustfulness of her six, bright students, and the Dobermans that patrol the building at night suggest trouble on the spot. As Kate leads her class through the inexorable tragic unfolding of Antigone, a parallel nightmare envelops the school and everyone connected with it...

Amanda Cross: The Theban Mysteries. A Kate Fansler Mystery. Fawcett Books, ISBN: 0449007065 (April, 2001), 210 p., $6.50.

Amanda Cross: The Theban Mysteries (USA 1979)

From the Publisher:
A Greek heroine plays an astonishing role in the mystery of a dead body.
Beautiful and brilliant Kate Fansier has returned to the Theban -- her alma mater and New York's most exclusive girls' school -- to teach a seminar on Antigone. The bold and defiant words of Antigone have a surprising relevance for these sophisticated students caught up in today's world of sex, drugs, and shrinks. But social relevance changes to real crisis when a student's mother is found in the school building -- dead of fright. With characteristic aplomb, Kate tackles the mystery, and discovers some bizarre activities indeed.

Amanda Cross, author of THE QUESTION OF MAX and POETIC JUSTICE, once again reveals her remarkable literary skill as her detective heroine Kate Fansler unravels a mystery of classic proportions.

Amanda Cross: The Theban Mysteries. An ancient tragedy... A modern demise... And a mystery to baffle the gods! A Kate Fansler Novel. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380450216 (November, 1979), 191 p., $1.75.

Amanda Cross: The Theban Mysteries (USA 1973)

From the Publisher:
THE AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL CRIME NOVEL AT ITS BRIGHTEST AND BEST
The Theban is the most exclusive girls' school in New York City. Kate Fansler, renegade from a superpatrician family, is, at this moment of crisis, conducting a senior seminar on Antigone at her alma mater. A charming and literate amateur sleuth, Kate summons up all her wit and ingenuity to solve a mystery she fears will besmirch the impeccable reputation of this fashionable but surprisingly relevant school.

Amanda Cross: The Theban Mysteries. A Kate Fansler Novel. New York: Warner, 1973, Warner Paperback Library #75-007, 192 p., ¢95.