MURDER UPTOWN

by Donna Hill ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 16, 1992

Actually murder midtown, since Fuller College seems a dead ringer for Hunter, home to children's author Hill, who wields the conventions of the academic whodunit--who killed sarcastic, philandering Paul Baskin (Sociology) and stuffed his body into the cafeteria trash?--with a torpid hand. Paul's colleague Melvina Trent chats up the excruciatingly familiar suspects--the unrequited love of Vinnie Trent's life; the junior colleague up for tenure; the pregnant grad student and her would-be champions; the perennial campus bag-lady; the secretaries and student guards who call every shadow ""Professor""--while surviving two murderous, hokey assaults and proposing a third to trap a killer she can't identify ten seconds before the climactic attack. There's rough justice in the academic murders: better perish than publish such charmless stuff.

Pub Date: March 16, 1992

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: 224

Publisher: Carroll & Graf

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 1992

Categories: FICTION