Professor McLeod Dulany's unassuming star student, Greg Pierre, actually is assuming-a false name, that is. When the student who outed him is found murdered, suspicion falls on Pierre. But McLeod believes in Pierre's innocence, and now must trace the clues left behind to find a killer's true identity.
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"Death is academic" number five,
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This review is from: The Princeton Impostor (Paperback)
McLeod Dulaney is a Florida journalist who has landed a great gig: teaching writing at Princeton University one semester a year. Coincidentally, every time she's up in New Jersey, she's involved in a murder investigation on campus. Inquisitive by nature, McLeod makes every attempt to solve the murder. She gets close to the truth but often comes to a slightly incorrect conclusion.
In this fifth installment in the series, we learn more about the class McLeod teaches and the students she comes in contact with. Greg Pierre, her best writing student, has evidently enrolled under a pseudonym to avoid legal charges from his home out West. After a grad student alerts school authorities to Greg's deception, the informant is found murdered in the chemistry lab. McLeod comes to Greg's rescue and tries to find out who was responsible for the murder. A second murder follows, and McLeod keeps asking questions. Will she figure everything out before she's next? And what's the status of her relationship with police investigator Nick Perry? How about her housemate and host, George Bridges? The episodes in this series are like bags of potato chips: you can't stop at just one. Though the general writing style and the unraveling of each mystery won't set the world on fire, the books are entertaining enough -- especially for folks who are connected to Princeton or to any academic atmosphere where similar circumstances could certainly arise.
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A whodunit with two stories in one,
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This review is from: The Princeton Impostor (Paperback)
In this fifth book of the series, we find McLeod Dulaney again teaching her writing class in Princeton (great life: working in the South as a reporter and one semester a year teachin in New Jersey). Her emotional entanglement with the Vice President - George is over and now she is leaning into a relationship with the local police lieutenant Nick Perry.
While teaching this semester, the police come in and nab one of her students. This starts one of the two storylines in the book. Actually, this one is not original as it copies pretty well the story of James Hogue who really did get admitted to Princeton on false premises as a track star. But to get back to our story, the person who reveals Greg Pierre's real name is found dead shortly thereafter, so naturally, all suspicion resides on the student. Well, McLeod does not believe that any student of hers is possible a murderer so she starts investigating. She goes around and asks lots of people lots of questions and the amusing parts are that the murders take place in the Chemistry department and as an English major, McLeod has no idea what chemists do. Reading some of her interviews and seeing her complete non-understanding of what she is being told is quite funny. One of the things that I liked about this book is that it showed McLeod for what she is: a meddler who does not always get it right. About one third of the way into the book, it becomes quite obvious who the real murderer was. However, I kept trying to make someone else be the murderer as I could not believe how obvious this was. Well, McLeod has a similar problem and she ends up accusing someone else to her police paramour. Luckily, the Police have figured out who the real murderer is based on what is described as solid evidence, namely fingerprints and alibis. the world of scientific academia is briefly explored with the author touching on how scientific labs work; the pressure to publish and the results of either publishing or perishing; the pressure to be the first and the rewards that accrue to the first to publish; and how seriously graduate students take their world. Although I have to admit, the funny line "who would want to kill a graduate student?" is repeated several times and is funny each time it's read. I only rate this a three star as the plot was too obviously copied from the real life Princeton Impostor and otherwise clumsily entwined around a murder mystery; a murder mystery that really isn't; and a completely gratuitous second murder. Oh well, I hope the next one is much better!
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Princeton Intrigue,
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Somehow I identify with the main characater, McLeod. Maybe it's her white hair that makes me feel akin. I like the way she relates to the students, even the imposter. And the setting feels so authentic. McLeod is a no-nonsense woman and fearless. She fits in well with the other academics and is shrewd about people. This particular book has a more complicated plot than the rest of the series and at times seemed baffling to me. But it all made sense in the end.
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