Murder at the University

C. B. Murray

2016年7月 · AuthorHouse

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John Paul Davis, a wealthy computer executive and alum of the university, returns for the wedding of a favorite professors daughter. At the wedding reception, he renews his friendship with a beautiful postdoc, Rachel Howard, and meets an old enemy, Professor Dewit, who extends an insulting invitation for dinner at his home the next evening. Rachel confides in John Paul about some missing lab notes. John Paul pumps aristocratic Chloe Manning, the owner of the bed and breakfast where he is staying, about Dewit and wife, Marie. Davis hears Marie had a lover, a young Midwestern boy. Inadvertently, Davis finds evidence that Chloe Manning was a member of La Fleur Noir, a secret French group of which Davis was once a member. At the dinner, Davis and Howard meet Dewits wife, Marie; Jim Harrington, a federal funding agent; Tom Walkins, who is up for promotion; Arthur Lewis and his wife, Evelyn; and Dean Brent Parker, who is up for the post of president, and his wife, Gina. Sparks fly between all the guests. When Dewit explains his new research plans, Rachel, flushed and angry, accuses him of plagiarism and threatens him. The next morning, the Dewits are found deadpoisoned. John Paul Davis finds himself in a dilemma. Who killed the Dewitsone of the professors, the postdoc Rachael Howard, or perhaps a student? Davis calls for help from his old mentor, Richard Moore, who is presently in China; the intriguing Chloe Manning; and the local police. But ultimately, Davis has to solve the murder in order to save his own life.

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C. B. Murray grew up in Iowa, graduated from Smith College, did graduate work at the University of Michigan, and performed research work in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where she met her husband. After the birth of two daughters, she moved to Delaware, where her husband taught physics at the University of Delaware and Murray wrote the Noir series of mysteries. Murder at the University was the first murder book written but was never published until now. Others include The Chinese Treasure, A Pox on You, and VX: A Deadly Mist. She has three books in the Magic series: A Bite of Magic, A Second Helping of Magic, and Matrimonial Magic with Mayonnaise. Dangerous Journey was her first children’s book. Murray has published nonfiction in Delaware Today magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer and edited, researched, and written information pamphlets at the University of Delaware. Visit the website www.clellamurray.com for book reviews and comments. Fifty percent of all profits will go to the Alzheimer’s Fund.