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Literature professor Kate Fansler is asked once again to turn her talents to private investigation when Winifred Ashby - honorary niece of Oxford scholar and novelist Charlotte Stanton - inexplicably disappears from her quiet farmhand life.
Using Winifred's journal and Charlotte's novels as her only available sources, Kate must follow a convoluted trail through Oxford to Santa Cruz before finally untangling the secrets of Winifred's past.
But Kate's investigation reveals far more than she anticipated as sinister issues of illegitimacy and inheritance arise . . .
Amanda Cross captivates us with strong women and astounding adventure in this gripping mystery, No Word from Winifred.
'Peopled with strong women . . . rich with ideas' Publishers' Weekly
About the author
Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1926-2003) attended Wellesley College, class of 1947, and later received her graduate degrees in English Literature from Columbia University, where she joined the faculty in 1960, retiring in 1992 as the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities. She authored nine scholarly books in the fields of feminist literary criticism and autobiography. As Amanda Cross, she wrote fourteen academic mystery novels and several short stories, featuring Kate Fansler, an English professor and amateur sleuth.
Summary
Amanda Cross captivates us with strong women and astounding adventure in this gripping mystery, No Word From Winifred.
Literature Professor Kate Fansler is asked once again to turn her talents to private investigation when Winifred Ashby – honorary niece of Oxford scholar and novelist Charlotte Stanton – inexplicably disappears from her quiet farmhand life.
Using Winifred’s journal and Charlotte’s novels as her only available sources, Kate must follow a convoluted trail through Oxford to Santa Cruz before finally untangling the secrets of Winifred’s past.
But Kate's investigation reveals far more than she anticipated as sinister issues of illegitimacy and inheritance arise . . .
Follow amateur sleuth Kate Fansler in this gripping murder mystery series, continuing with A Trap for Fools and The Players Come Again.
Foreword
The sixth mystery novel in Amanda Cross's bestselling Kate Fansler series.
Additional text
If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you
