Very good book with good dust jacket. First edition. Book is clean and crisp and looks unused except for owner's personal library embossing stamp and date in front cover. Dust jacket has wear to edges and the flaps have been anchored to the book with sticky tape.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Advanced Calculus of Murder (The Mathematician/ Sleuth Returns!)

Publisher

St Martins Pr

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

031201726X

ISBN 13

9780312017262

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Fair

Weight

500 grams

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a maths professor's library

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Synopsis

Mathematician sleuth Dan Brodsky becomes embroiled, once again, in murder when a fellow participant in a conference at Oxford University is killed and close friend, Paul Hobart, is accused of the crime

Reviews

In this second appearance (after Calculus of Murder) of mathematician-sleuth Dan Brodsky, Rosenthal's mystery does not pass the test. Attending a mathematics conference at Oxford University where he is to deliver a paper, Brodsky also intends to find a missing person. A client in California has hired him to track down an adult-film actress, whom he has traced to London. At the conference, a 15-year-old dispute over stolen mathematical ideas flares up; some hours later the alleged thief is murdered. Paul Hobart, Brodsky's mentor (and originator of the disputed work) has been framed and is being held by the police. Brodsky is certain that one of the conferees is the killer. His investigation takes the form of endless, redundant interrogations of a handful of people about the night of the crime and of events 15 years past. When Brodsky supplies a more plausible suspect, Hobart is released. Brodsky trots off to London and locates his missing actress, but when he returns to Oxford his suspect has been murdered and Hobart is, again, implicated. The plot is thin and the resolution is disappointingly obvious. Rosenthal's portrayal of "wild mathemeticians" playing cards, sleeping around, speaking and acting like drunken frat boys is an embarrassment, and his casual gay-bashing is inexcusable. (July) UFunder
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