Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini (ed.): Dark Lessons (USA 1985)

From the Publisher:
The First Day of School Was Never This Frightening
The halls of academe -from kindergarten to college - may seem an unlikely place for murder and mayhem, but according to Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, in fiction they are often crowded with sinister characters bent on wicked undertakings.

The third volume in the acclaimed Macmillan Midnight Library series, Dark Lessons is an anthology of academic mystery stories by some of the world's greatest masters of literary suspense. Authors include Edgar Allan Poe, Graham Greene, Dorothy L. Sayers, Harry Kemelman, Stanley Ellin, and Shirley Jackson, and the stories are as varied in format and content as their backgrounds.

Set in large universities, small colleges, high schools, grade schools -- and even an old-fashioned one-room schoolhouse -- the stories have as their protagonists teachers, pupils, parents, and wily university sleuths who spend their semesters investigating campus crimes. The editors' introduction, along with the informative biographical notes that precede each story, discusses the role of academe in the mystery and suspense genre.

From Evan Hunter's chilling portrait of juvenile delinquency in "To Break the Wall" (upon which the movie Blackboard Jungle was based) to the literary blending of crime and scholarship in Barry N. Malzberg's "The Turncoat Journal of Marc Milton Stearns," Dark Lessons casts the classroom in an eerie, evil light -- as a piace where the only F is the one that stands for Fear.

CONENTS:
Introduction
William Wilson, Edgar Allan Poe
Murder at Pentecost, Dorothy L. Sayers
Murder at Mother's Knee, Cornell Woolrich
The Lethal Logic, Norbert Davis
To Break the Wall, Evan Hunter
When Greek Meets Greek, Graham Greene
Charles, Shirley Jackson
The Ten O'Clock Scholar, Harry Kemelman
The Problem of the Little Red Schoolhouse, Edward D. Hoch
The Disappearance of Maggie, Talmage Powell
A Matter of Scholarship, Anthony Boucher
Final Exam, Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg
Broken Pattern, George C. Chesbro
Dead Week, L. P. Carpenter
Van der Valk and the High School Riot, Nicolas Freeling
Robert, Stanley Ellin
The Turncoat Journal of Marc Milton Stearns, Barry N. Malzberg

Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini (ed.): Dark Lessons. Crime + Detection on Campus. Macmillan Midnight Library, ISBN: 0025992201 (May, 1985), 264 p., $19.95.