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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lawrence Block , Ian Rankin , David MorrellPublisher: LB Productions Imprint: LB Productions Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9781951939809ISBN 10: 1951939808 Pages: 286 Publication Date: 31 May 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsSet in and around colleges and universities, the 17 new stories and one reprint in this top-notch anthology explore the forbidding side of academia. As Block (the Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries) notes in his droll introduction, each of the varied, well-told tales is as individual as fingerprints. Among the standouts are David Morrell's devious Requiem for a Homecoming, in which two alumni cast suspicion on each other while debating a 20-year-old murder; Ian Rankin's riveting The Reasoners, concerning the cover-up of a murder at a secret society in an ancient British university; and Reed Farrel Coleman's chilling An Even Three, about a psychopath at a liberal arts college. Elsewhere, themes veer from rivalry, rape, and survival of the fittest, to plagiarism, academic ghostwriting, and unsavory alternative employment beyond the ivy-covered walls. Creepy oddities include Owen King's tale of heroism, That Golden Way, A.J. Hartley's supernatural Rounded with a Sleep, and Jane Hamilton's superlative Writing Maeve Dubinsky, about the appropriation of another person's work. Crime fiction fans won't want to miss this exemplary compilation. -Publishers Weekly's starred review Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |