Caught Dead in Philadelphia

Gillian Roberts is the nom de mystère taken by Judith Greber, a former high school English teacher who has taught writing for College of Marin, Book Passage, Writer's Digest and the University of San Francisco Master's in Writing program.
Under her own name, she's written four mainstream novels: Easy Answers, The Silent Partner, Mendocino, and As Good As It Gets.
As Gillian Roberts, she's written over a dozen anthologized short stories and a mystery series featuring a Philadelphia high school English teacher named Amanda Pepper. Caught Dead in Philadelphia won the World Mystery Convention's "Anthony" for Best First Mystery of 1987. Following in the series are: Philly Stakes, I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia, With Friends Like These..., How I Spent My Summer Vacation, In the Dead of Summer, The Mummers' Curse, The Bluest Blood, Adam and Evil, Helen Hath No Fury, Claire and Present Danger, Till the End of Tom, A Hole in Juan and All's Well that Ends. All have been Mystery Guild selections and translated into Japanese, German and Danish and are available in audio versions as well.

Native Philadelphians, Judith and Robert Greber live in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are the parents of two adult sons.

The debut of Philly Prep English teacher and accidental sleuth, Amanda Pepper, (and of C.K. Mackenzie, homicide detective) won the World Mystery Convention's "Anthony" for best first mystery.

When the body of a colleague is found dead in Amanda's living room, she has to clear herself of suspicion - and make sure she isn't the next victim as well. And all she's got as a clue to the real killer's identity is a locket shaped like Winnie-the-Pooh.