GREAT...Read in one sitting if you can.

This book is 210 pages long. It is one sentence. 
Don't let that scare you off. 
It is brilliant. 
That's all I will say.
Please read it.

Old School Mystery...a la my Women's Detective Fiction Class

OK, so I finally decided to clean out my upstairs overflow library. While there I stumbled across this and all the annotations I made in it when I took a night class for fun a few years ago. Anyway, my annotations are honestly the best part. It's good as murder mysteries go, but the constant name dropping of books and authors and multiple quotes from other books may turn the everyday reader off. It does a good job of revealing what a female professor's life was likely like during the 1970s and 1980s though as the author (Amanda Cross is a pseudonym) was a famous professor of literature. However, you will establish who the killer is long before 1/2 way through the novel.