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Campus Crimes In these titles, either the investigator or the victim is a faculty member at a school, college or university. Many of the sleuths are amateurs, though sometimes he or she is associated with the local police or is a private detective. There are a great many female professors getting their hands dirty in the academic mystery world, and campus crime allows intelligent sleuths with specialized, sometimes esoteric, knowledge to shine. Eccentricity is a characteristic of many campus crime investigators, and the cozy has a comfortable home here; the historical mystery also fares well on campus, along with the occasional grittier story. Regardless of who is trying to solve the crime, the books demonstrate that academic life can be a hotbed of deadly intrigue, not necessarily a soft, cushy job. The following is a list of authors who fit into this category  AUTHOR (PROTAGONIST) - TITLES (publication date) Irene Allen (Quaker Elizabeth Elliot investigates the murder of a Harvard paleontologist) - Quaker Witness (1993) Richard Barth (Costas Agonomou, security officer for St. Bartlett's College, Brooklyn) - Final Shot (1992) J.S. Borthwick (English professor Sarah Deane, Maine) - Student Body (1986) (third in series, first one RPL has) - Intensive Scare Unit (2004) Gail Bowen (Regina University professor Joanne Kilbourn) - Deadly Appearances (1990) - Last Good Day (2004) Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot investigates a murder at a girls' boarding school) - Cat Among the Pigeons (1959) Thomas H. Cooke (murder at a Massachusetts private school, not a series) - Chatham School Affair (1996) Michael Craft (former Broadway director Claire Gray, now teaching theatre at Palm Springs art school) - Desert Autumn (2001) - Desert Winter (2003) - Desert Spring (2004) Bill Crider (Texas English professor Carl Burns) - One Dead Dean (1988) - Dying Voices (1989) - A Dangerous Thing (1994) Bill Crider (community college English professor Sally Good) - Knife in the Back (2002) - A Bond with Death (2004) Amanda Cross (New York literature professor Kate Fansler) - In the Last Analysis (1964) - Edge of Doom (2002) Joanne Dobson (Massachusetts English professor Karen Pelletier) - Quieter Than Sleep (1997) - Maltese Manuscript (2003) Aaron Elkins (Gideon Oliver, anthropology professor at Heidelberg University) - Fellowship of Fear (1982) - Where There's A Will (2005) Elizabeth George (Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard investigates English prep school murder) - Well Schooled In Murder (1990) J.M. Gregson (Superintendant John Lambert investigates murders at Gloucestershire University) - An Academic Death (2001) Carolyn G. Hart (former reporter turned teacher Ann Farrell) - The Rich Die Young (1983) Hazel Holt (author and Oxford professor Sheila Mallory) - The Cruellest Month (1991) - Mrs. Malory and the Silent Killer (2004) Susan Holtzer (computer professor Anneke Haagen) - Black Diamond (1997) - Better Than Sex (2001) Nora Kelly (history professor Gillian Adams) - My Sister's Keeper (1992) Jane Langton (Harvard professor Homer Kelly) - Emily Dickinson is Dead (1984) (fifth in series, first RPL has) - Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg (2003) Janice Law (literature professor Jason Larson) - The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed (2002) Charlotte MacLeod (Maine botany professor Peter Shandy) - Corpse in Oozak's Pond (1987) - Exit the Milkman (1996) Ralph McInerny (philosophy professor Roger Knight, Notre Dame University) - On This Rockne: A Notre Dame Mystery (1997) - Irish Coffee (2003) Clare Munnings (college chaplain Rosemary Stubbs) - Overnight Float (2000) Robert B. Parker (private investigator Spenser investigates murder at a New England university) - Hush Money (1999) Lev Raphael (gay Michigan English professor Nick Hoffman) - Edith Wharton Murders (1997) (second in series, first RPL has) - Tropic of Murder (2004) Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey's inamorata Harriet Vane investigates murder at her Oxford reunion) - Gaudy Night (1936) Sarah R. Shaber (North Carolina history professor Simon Shaw) - Simon Said (1997) - Bug Funeral (2004) Edith Skom (Midwestern University professor Beth Austin) - Mark Twain Murders (1989) - George Eliot Murders (1995) - Charles Dickens Murders (1998) Joan Smith (British professor Loretta Larson) - What Men Say (1994) (RPL does not have two earlier ones) - Full Stop (1996) Veronica Stallwood (novelist Kate Ivory; series is set in Oxford University) - Oxford Exit (1994) (second in series, first RPL has) - Oxford Proof (2002) Pamela Thomas-Graham (black Harvard professor Veronica Chase) - A Darker Shade of Crimson, an Ivy League Mystery (1998) - Blue Blood, an Ivy League Mystery (1999) Eric Wright (Toronto police inspector Charlie Salter investigates a college dean's murder) - Death By Degrees (1993) Mark Richard Zubro (gay high school English teacher Tom Mason) - The Only Good Priest (1992) - File Under Dead (2004) Descriptions and book list borrowed liberally from NoveList and the Wakefield Public Library's Supper Sleuths lists |
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