Murder on Campus

Hazel Holt originated from Birmingham, England, where she attendedKing Edward VI High School for Girls. She studied at Newnham College,Cambridge, and went on to work at the International African Institute inLondon, where she became acquainted with the novelist Barbara Pym,whose biography she later wrote. Holt wrote her first novel in her sixties and is a leading crimenovelist.She is best known for her "Sheila Malory" series. Her son is the novelist Tom Holt.

A small university in Pennsylvania has engaged Mrs. Sheila Malory to teach a course on Nineteenth-Century Women writers, and so, with some reluctance, the widow leaves her home in the charming seaside village of Taviscombe to experience academic life in America. The semester will prove even more challenging than she thought, for no sooner does she arrive than a colleague is found with a bullet in his head. The victim is particularly nasty, a man many would like to see dead. Lieutenant Landis, the lead investigator, just happens to be divorced, available, and eager to discuss Shakespeare. When he asks Mrs. Malory for help, he puts her in a difficult position. Should she assist him in his investigation, even if her efforts encourage his romantic interest? Sheila, who can't resist a good murder mystery, forges ahead. What she discovers will make her regret that she ever left Taviscombe. Murder on Campus is the fifth of Hazel Holt's Mrs. Malory mysteries.