Poisoned Ivy [Mass Market Paperback]

M. D. Lake (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1992

When university student Donna Trask is murdered with a poisoned apple meant for Jeremiah Strauss, the university's most unpopular dean, security officer Peggy O'Neill must find the assassin before he or she strikes again.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Lake's ( Amends for Murder ) engaging campus cop Peggy O'Neill returns to disclose the dark secrets lurking inside the ivory towers of academe when Jeremiah Strauss, unpopular dean of the graduate school, is targeted with death threats. Peggy is one of the cops assigned to attend a banquet honoring Strauss, where a disgruntled young woman named Donna Trask commandeers the podium and bites into the apple that was meant to be a prop for Strauss's speech--and that is laced with cyanide. Peggy's insatiable curiosity leads her to exceed her authority while seeking to find out why someone would try to do in the dean. Her search is spurred on by the arrest of Edith Silberman, a professor whom Peggy had liked as a student and whose grudge against Jeremiah goes back years. It is great fun trailing around with Peggy as she digs up the dirt on deliciously dreadful folks like unscrupulous Strauss; Hudson Bates, the assistant dean who runs Strauss's "sleazy errands"; and Donald Trask, Donna's father and the university's chief attorney. As for Donna herself, although she bit into the poisoned apple, it becomes clear that she was no Snow White.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

M. D. Lake lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Avon (March 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 038076573X
• ISBN-13: 978-0380765737
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,300,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)