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Title: A Trap for Fools by Amanda Cross ISBN: 0-345-35947-X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: January, 1990 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: "Twisted By Knaves To Make a Trap For Fools"
Comment: A TRAP FOR FOOLS is a fairly good mystery story about the murder of an unpopular college professor. University authorities ask faculty member Kate Fansler to conduct her own investigation of the death in addition to the police inquiry.
It helps if the reader is familiar with the quirky and sometimes mean atmosphere found at many colleges. It also helps if the reader is interested in literature as well as feminine and minority rights issues.
Rating: 4
Summary: Kate is actually asked to investigate by the university
Comment: Dr. Canfield Adams egotistical chair of the Islamic studies department is found dead on the pavement below his office window. The police see no reason to suspect foul play, but anyone who has met the man knows that he is the last person in the world to commit suicide. There are many suspects, but the police have locked in on the most unlikely, Kate's friend Humphrey Egereton. Adams resented the fact that Egereton's black students would use an office in his building for meetings. Kate is pressured into investigating by her friend in the administration, Edna, who tells Kate that she is the only one who can solve the matter discreetly.
I found myself unable to put this book down. It was by far the quickest read of all Cross' novels. The story has many twists and turns and a surprise ending that I didn't expect at all.
Rating: 5
Summary: A little Kipling and a lot of academic politics.
Comment: Women faculty and lethal politics and the wonder of Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; . . . . If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
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Title: The Players Come Again by Amanda Cross ISBN: 034536998X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Question of Max by Amanda Cross ISBN: 0345354893 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Sweet Death, Kind Death by Amanda Cross ISBN: 0345352548 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: No Word from Winifred by Amanda Cross ISBN: 0345333810 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: April, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Theban Mysteries by Amanda Cross ISBN: 0449007065 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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