Illustration by Debbie Ryder

SWEET DEATH, KIND DEATH

by AMANDA CROSS

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Kate Fransler, Professor of Literature and amateur detective, is invited to Clare College, New England, ostenably to contribute to the task force on Gender Studies. However, her real objective is to investigate the death by drowning of Patrice

Umphelby, historian and novelist. Was it Murder o r Suicide? Patrice had been vocal on her distaste for old age and professed to be "in love with death". During her lifetime Patrice's slight eccentricity and certainly her feminism had antagonised many of her fellow academics. Her biographers, Herbert and Archer, suspect one of them of murdering Patrice.