"Stuart Jordon, a student at the 'University of Philadelphia', is murdered by poison while being initiated into a fraternity. The Student Fraternity Murder, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1932. Fitzsimmons was in publishing sales and attended NYU and City College of New York. and not until the very end of the story does Detective Ketheridge discover the method by which Demuth and Cannero were killed.". At the end of the mock scrimmage, Rudolpho Cannero, Demuth's stand-in, falls dead as he strides into the end zone. Was his sudden collapse the result of a heart attack, or was it murder? An autopsy is inconclusive and Jack Kethridge, a local police detective, the sequence of plays that let to Walter's fatal run. Demuth performs in his usual stellar fashion until, late in the contest, he falls dead while scoring a touchdown. 70,000 spectators pack the stadium Demuth lead his team to victory. "'State College' is an American football powerhouse and Walter Demuth is its star halfback. 70,0000 Witnesses: A Football Mystery, New York:McBride, 1931. (Kramer, entry #10, p 8.)įitzsimmons, Cortland. Vance unmasks the killer as clues pile up, readers learn a great deal about the dark secrets that underlie the seemingly placid professorial lives of Dillard and Arnesson." The author attended St Vincent and Pomona Colleges and completed graduate work in English at Harvard. Called into the case is Philo Vance, detective who is one of Professor Dillard's students. The story begins with the murder (by bow and arrow) of Joseph Robin, a young playboy and one of Belle's acquaintances . Arnesson, nearing forty, is associate professor of mathematics at Columbia. "Professor Bertand Dillard, one of the world's great mathematical physicists his abode with Belle Dillard, his attractive young niece, and Sigurd Arnesson, his adopted son. The Bishop Murder Case, New York: Scribner's, 1929. , the father of the undergraduate narrator and, is a lawyer who writes mystery novels as a hobby is asked by Dartmouth's president to become the school's temporary detective-in-residence." Orr himself is a Dartmouth alum and was an editor at The New Yorker. as a result of steel needles that are mysteriously fired into their skulls. The Dartmouth Murders, New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1929. His body is found by Dr Martin Blythe, one of the unviersity's most distinguished junior scientists, and by George Wroxham, a medical student.Detective Inspector Mellison of Scotland yard is soon on the scene Dr Blythe, Wroxham and Mellison then engage in sleuthing." Scotsman Davidson was a graduate of Cambridge University and a long-time professor of biochemistry at McGill University. begins with the death of Walter Sheppary, a research fellow in toxicology expires in his laboratory after consuming cyanide. "Set at an unidentified British university. Among the aspiring sleuths are Miss Armitage, Dickinson's president and Isabel Carter, Dickinson's Masefield Professor of Poetry." No infor on author. several members of board of directors are associated with 'Dickinson College', a nearby school for women. Also missing is attractive Patience Farwell, the bookshop's manager. "The night after he reads some of his work at a bookshop in the New England Town of 'Hawthorne', the noted poet Paul Slocombe disappears. Into the Void: A Bookshop Mystery, Boston: Little, Brown, 1926. Call number: PS 3566 A6.Ĭonverse, Florence. Profiling the American Detective: Parker's Prose on the Coded Game of Sleuth and Rogue and the Tradition of the Crime Story, Frankfurter: Peter Lang, 2004. Cracking the Hard-Boiled Detective: A Critical History From the 1920s to the Present, Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2006. Kramer, John E, Academe in Mystery and Detective Fiction: An Anotated Bibliography, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000. Crime Fiction Since 1800: Detection, Death, Diversity, 2nd edition, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010. Crime Fiction 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography, and, Supplement, 1981-1985, New York: GarladPublsihing, 1980, and 1988. The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction, New York: Frederick Unger Publihsihg, 1985. Sons of Sam Spade: The Private-eye Novel in the 70s: Robert B Parker, Roger L Simon, Andrew Bergman, New York: Frederick Unger Publsihing, 1980.
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