Honest Doubt
By (Author) Amanda Cross
13
Random House USA Inc
Ballantine Books Inc.
15th December 2001
United States
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
256
Width 107mm, Height 173mm, Spine 13mm
142g
Professor Charles Haycock is dead from a hearty dose of his own heart medication. The mystery is not why Haycock was murderedvery few could stomach the woman-hating profbut who did the deed.
Estelle "Woody" Woodhaven, a private investigator hired to find the killer, naturally enlists the help of that indefatigable amateur sleuth, Kate Fansler. Together, they start to pull at the loose ends of the very tangled Clifton College English Department. The list of suspects is longer than the freshman survey reading list. And as the women defuse the host of literary landmines set out for them, Woody suspects they're only scratching the surface of a very large and sinister plot. . . .
"ONE OF CROSS'S BEST BOOKS IN YEARS."
--The Providence Journal
"AS SHOCKING AS IT IS PLAUSIBLE."
--The Washington Post Book World
Amanda Cross is the pseudonymous author of the bestselling Kate Fansler mysteries, of which Honest Doubt is the thirteenth. As Carolyn G. Heilbrun, she is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Columbia University. She has served as president of the Modern Language Association as well as vice president of the Authors Guild. Dr. Heilbrun is also the author of Writing a Woman's Life, Hamlet's Mother and Other Women, The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem, and, most recently, the New York Times Notable Book The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty.