When Professor Beth Austin tires of the harsh, Chicago winter, she escapes to the sun and fun of the Royal Aloha hotel in Hawaii. This top-rates resort hotel with its gardens, its Asian art collection, its magnificent beach, and its dedicated, repeat clientele proves irresistible to Beth who has two glorious weeks of freedom between semesters. Hawaii will be the perfect place to prepare for her upcoming seminar on George Eliot's Middlemarch. But shortly after her arrival, Beth is confronted with the specter of murder and before she knows it, she and some new friends are neck deep in danger, and the closer they get to the killer, the more dangerous the game becomes. From the Paperback edition.

The George Eliot Murders

Literature & Fiction

Skom, Edith

United States

DELACORTE PRESS

Edith Skom returns, better than ever, with another clever tale of English professor and amateur sleuth Beth Austin. With her unique ability to twist a plot with humor, style, and flair, Skom is certain to meet her fans' great expectations. The Charles Dickens Murders is perfect for readers who enjoy the books of Amanda Cross and Elizabeth Peters. On a sweltering summer night, a woman is murdered in her hospital bed in New York City. Almost a thousand miles away, Midwestern University professor Beth Austin is leading a class through the complete works of Charles Dickens. The framework that connects this tale of two cities begins to unfold when Beth learns something she never could have imagined: forty years ago, her mother was involved in a treacherous love triangle at the University of Chicago. Disturbed by her mother's past of painful lies, secrets, and murder, Beth is determined to find out the truth-no matter the cost. As she delves into the story of the man her mother loved and her rival for his affections, Beth discovers that these old deadly secrets may well destroy her own dreams for the future. Edith Skom is the author of The Mark Twain Murders and The George Eliot Murders and has been nominated for the Agatha, Macavity, and the Anthony Award. She lives outside of Chicago, Illinois, where she is a lecturer at Northwestern University.

The Charles Dickens Murders (A Beth Austin Mystery)

Skulduggery was afoot in the campus library at Midwestern University. Sinister students were razoring pages from periodicals and stealing obscure essays for their term papers. A bookish thief was making a bundle smuggling out valuable first editions for resale. And in the South Tower, a killer was stalking a coed. Even so, Professor Beth Austin was shocked--and intrigued--to find a handsome FBI agent in the English Department. Soon they had joined forces, delving into the lives of her eccentric colleagues...and straying into the dark shadows of the groves of academe where someone's hands were stained with blood.

The Mark Twain Murders

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Dell

When Professor Beth Austin tires of the harsh, Chicago winter, she escapes to the sun and fun of the Royal Aloha hotel in Hawaii. This top-rates resort hotel with its gardens, its Asian art collection, its magnificent beach, and its dedicated, repeat clientele proves irresistible to Beth who has two glorious weeks of freedom between semesters. Hawaii will be the perfect place to prepare for her upcoming seminar on George Eliot's Middlemarch. But shortly after her arrival, Beth is confronted with the specter of murder and before she knows it, she and some new friends are neck deep in danger, and the closer they get to the killer, the more dangerous the game becomes.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of crimes. On a sweltering summer night, a woman dies mysteriously in her hospital bed in New York City. A thousand miles away, amateur sleuth and Midwestern University professor Beth Austin prepares for a class on The Mystery of Edwin Drood, when her mother drops a bombshell: Fifty years ago, she was involved in a similar Dickensian love triangle and unsolved murder at the University of Chicago. As Beth soon discovers, it's the stuff of great fiction. A gorgeous coed was killed, no suspect was found, and her mother's once-tight college clique dissolved. Each had a motive for murder, now concealed in a morass of lies. Then the killer strikes again in New York, half a century later. Now Beth must re-create the scene of the crime to see if, as in Bleak House, beauty is its own punishment. To learn what her own mother cannot, or will not, tell her. And to risk her own life as the killer, determined to keep old secrets buried, prepares to strike again. . . .

The Charles Dickens Murders: A Beth Austin Mystery

When Beth Austin investigates a case of plagiarism in an award-winning student paper, the trial soon leads to murder

The Mark Twain Murders (Brown Bag Mystery Series)

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The George Eliot Murders

The Charles Dickens Murders (A Beth Austin Mystery)

The Mark Twain Murders

The George Eliot Murders

The Charles Dickens Murders: A Beth Austin Mystery

The Mark Twain Murders (Brown Bag Mystery Series)