While visiting a patient at a local clinic, eccentric mathematics professor John Dobie and his girlfriend, Dr. Kate Coyle, stumble upon a comatose teenager--who later dies--lying along the roadside and become involved in the inquiry into her death.
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From Publishers Weekly
Math whiz and extremely absentminded professor John Dobie and his best girl, Dr. Kate Coyle, find murder in a "loony bin" in their latest appearance (following The Mask of Zeus ) in Cory's bold and witty series. Assembled at the Tongwynlais Rehabilation Centre near Cardiff are various substance-addicted souls, including a famous author who has asked Dobie to vouch for his worthiness. Of course, there are legions within and without academia who strongly doubt Dobie's sanity, not to mention the Welsh police who have understandably ambiguous responses to his canny solutions of nasty murders. Next to the Centre is the fancy girl's school where the promiscuous Beverly Sutro, whom Dobie and Kate find near death on the side of the road, was a student. Beverly has unexplained amounts of money, a lover (or possibly a client) and a dysfunctional family with strong ties to organized crime. Dobie has a puzzle, in which the pieces are the Centre's infiltrated computer system, his author friend's hynosis-induced dreams of Beverly and the cryptic note in the girl's pocket. Dobie, who has trouble remembering friends' names and operating an automobile, is a wizard with computers and cryptic notes. In the hands of a lesser talent than Cory's, Dobie would be a joke rather than what he is: a fresh, comic presence with an uncanny ability to lure readers into his weird yet oddly logical world.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Many fictional sleuths toil for years without seeing their names emblazoned on their books' titles, but it's oddly appropriate that Professor John Dobie, in only his third adventure, should lend his name to this new case. On his way back to Cardiff with his pathologist lover, Dr. Kate Coyle, to visit Adrian Seymour, locked up in the Tongwynlais Rehabilitation Centre ever since surviving The Mask of Zeus (1993), Dobie happens onto dying Beverley Sutro of the neighboring Dame Margaret School. The suspects in the transparently bogus hit-and-run range from a shoal of psychiatrists--including Dr. Robert Mighell, whose alarmingly precocious daughter Elspeth says of head administrator Morris Train, ``He lives in that big house just up the road and Daddy's screwing his wife''--to contract killer Ivor (the Terrible) Halliday, who just might be Beverley's father. Using a mathematical method his girlfriend compares to ``hitting a malfunctioning television set a few smart blows with a heavy hammer,'' Dobie tweaks a defective computer link, charms a pair of gossipy teens, unconsciously imitates the Novocained lisp of the local headmistress, and gets locked in a padded cell, twice, en route to solving the dexterously tangled mystery. Though the case lacks the mind-boggling complexity of his earlier outings, Dobie remains as inscrutably feckless as ever: Lt. Columbo with a chair in mathematics. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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