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In a college dorm in the late Seventies, seven hallmates hold a funeral for a pet hamster, only to stumble upon a body ... Startled but not exactly sorrowful at finding their unpopular dorm preceptor slumped atop a garbage can in the trash room, Keith and his friends can't resist investigating, and set to questioning a quirky set of potential witnesses and suspects. Could the killer be a fellow student? A member of the faculty or staff? The provost? Might it even be one of their friends? Keith and his pals must navigate college politics, unruly druggies, and lesbian separatists in order to uncover the truth.

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When a story opens with a wake for a dead hamster that produces a corpse of the human variety, you suspect you're in for a romp. And that's what Colette Tajemna provides in this witty story that is part farce and every bit a satisfying mystery. I laughed as I puzzled out this masterful whodunit. -James H Lewis, author of the Chief Novak series Fans of Sarah Caudwell will especially enjoy this clever mystery with its academic setting and subtle wit. -Carolyn Korsmeyer, author of Little Follies: A Mystery at the Millennium Funny, and at times nostalgic, author Colette Tajemna balances the sociological examination of a generation and a time with a good, old-fashioned mystery worthy of Agatha Christie-suspect after suspect pinpointed and then cast aside as the students barrel toward a satisfying denouement, wisecracking along the way. - Steven Mayfield, award winning author of The Penny Mansions and Treasure of the Blue Whale [T]he story unfolds with the charm and humor of a Jane Austen novel, drawing you in deeper with every turn of the page. Prepare to be captivated as the truth behind this gripping mystery reveals itself in a twist you never saw coming. -Roslyn Reid, author of A Scandal at Crystalline and The Spiricom

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Colette Tajemna has been an avid mystery reader since the age of eight, when she was surprised to discover that mysteries, not mythology or fairy tales, constituted the largest category of oral book reports she had presented at school. Among her favorite mystery authors are (somewhat chronologically) Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Josephine Tey, Sarah Caudwell, Laurie R. King, Louise Penny, and (a more recent discovery) Richard Osman. She's also enjoyed many a book by (alphabetically) Lawrence Block, Christianna Brand, Raymond Chandler, Colin Cotterill, Amanda Cross, Martha Grimes, Gregory McDonald, Adrian McKinty, Ellis Peters, Elizabeth Peters, Ruth Rendell, Georges Simenon ... and on and on!She lives with two house rabbits, neither of which is named Hemingway, and writes other kinds of books as Karla Huebner.

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