Sweet Death, Kind Death

Sweet Death, Kind Death

About the Book

"If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
When Clare College's resident eccentric Patrice Umphelby is found drowned in the campus lake, it's called a suicide. But the college president grows suspicious and calls in noted professor/detective Kate Fansler to research the matter. Ingratiating herself with her academic colleagues to learn more about Patrice's life, Kate digs up the evidence she needs to understand her death....
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Kate Fansler Series

The Puzzled Heart
The Edge of Doom
Honest Doubt
The Theban Mysteries
Poetic Justice
In the Last Analysis
The Collected Stories of Amanda Cross
An Imperfect Spy
Sweet Death, Kind Death
No Word from Winifred
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About the Author

Amanda Cross
Amanda Cross is the pseudonymous author of the bestselling Kate Fansler mysteries. 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 LifeHamlet's Mother and Other WomenThe Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem, and the New York Times Notable Book The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty. More by Amanda Cross
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