Literature professor Kate Fansler is asked once again to turn her talents to private investigation when Winifred Ashby - honorary niece of Oxford scholar and novelist Charlotte Stanton - inexplicably disappears from her quiet farmhand life.
Using Winifred's journal and Charlotte's novels as her only available sources, Kate must follow a scantily informed trail through Oxford to Santa Cruz before finally untangling the secrets of Winifred's past.
But Kate's investigation reveals far more than she anticipated as issues of illigetimicary and inheritance arise... Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1926-2003) attended Wellesley College, class of 1947, and later received her graduate degrees in English Literature from Columbia University, where she joined the faculty in 1960, retiring in 1992 as the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities. She authored nine scholarly books in the fields of feminist literary criticism and autobiography. As Amanda Cross, she wrote fourteen academic mystery novels and several short stories, featuring Kate Fansler, an English professor and amateur sleuth. The sixth mystery novel in Amanda Cross' best selling Kate Fansler series.
