Academic Murder

About the Book

The life of scholarly contemplation enjoyed by the Fellows of Sheepshanks College, Cambridge, is shattered when the Pryevian Librarian collapses and dies at High Table owing to a slug of arsenic in his port, and the recently discovered holograph copy of Shakespeare’s earliest poem, “Cupid and Psyche”, is found to be missing from the college library. John Saltmarsh, a Sheepshank’s Fellow and closet writer of detective novels, sets out to solve these conundrums. The waters are further muddied by a rapist who stalks the streets of Cambridge in an academic gown.

About the Author

Dorsey Fiske spent a year as a research student in bibliography at Darwin College, Cambridge. She has published another detective story set at Sheepshanks College, Bound to Murder, which is available at Backinprint.com. Raptor, a thriller set in the United States, was published in 2000 by Tor Press.