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Chaos hits the State University of Michigan when two bitterly rival Edith Wharton societies are brought together for the same conference. Its reluctant organizer, Professor Nick Hoffman, is desperate to get tenure, and when there's a murder, his only chance of saving his academic career is finding the killer.
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Whoever said that the pen was mightier than the sword might have had The Edith Wharton Murders in mind. In this campus mystery by the talented Lev Raphael, a conference on Edith Wharton becomes a killing ground when various literary factions carry their war of words a little too far--and someone ends up dead. At the heart of both the hostilities and the mystery is Nick Hoffman, a Wharton bibliographer saddled with the thankless task of moderating the conference. Once the murder has occurred, Nick must switch his focus from panel discussions to investigation, a course of action that provides plenty of opportunities for author Raphael to skewer the academic world he left behind.
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Critical Praise for The Edith Wharton Murders:
"[A] maliciously funny campus mystery...Raphael has marvelous recall of the entertaining world he left behind." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
"A witty, fast-paced mystery that is also a hilarious send-up of academia at its quietly snarling worst." --Booklist
"Lev Raphael skewers academic pretensions with wicked glee [and] Dickensian flair. Few writers are as adept at lampooning academic inanity." --Chicago Sun-Times
"The groves of academe have never been bitchier." --Denver Post
"Marvelous humor and satisfying mystery...wickedly funny." --Drood Review of Mystery
"Bright, breezy, and laugh-aloud funny." --Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
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- PublisherStonewall Inn Mysteries
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0312198639
- ISBN 13 9780312198633
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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