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A Little Class on Murder | 
 enlarge | Author: Carolyn G. Hart
Publisher: Crimeline
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 453537
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 44
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0553282085
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553282085
ASIN: 0553282085
Publication Date: November 1, 1989
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Product Description
When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach "The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery" class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain's hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking scandal in the school newspaper erupts in a suicide and two violent deaths, Professor Laurance enlists the talents of her new hubby, private eye Max Darling, and dons her thinking cap to probe intrigue and vengeance among Chastain's faculty.
A Dangerous Thing
Max and Annie, with dubious help from three of their own great ladies of the mystery -- Annie's pixilated mother-in-law, a batty local dowager, and a Christie crime fanatic -- learn that just about everyone at the school had means, motive, and access to the murder weapons. From the secretly boozing professor of advertising to the muscle-bound campus cad who barters passing grades for a little extracurricular activity, anyone on the faculty is a possible killer -- waiting to strike again!
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 An enjoyable romp. November 5, 2006
No one can call Ms. Hart's Death on Demand series an example of hard-boiled detectionn writing. She is very definitely in the cozy genre, but she fits very well in there. I probably enjoyed this book the most so far in this series. This is the fifth book in this series. In it Annie is teaching a class in a community college. She is teaching about the three grande dames from the Golden Age of mystery, and she really warms up to her task and to her class, even though she has three very familiar faces in it. While expounding on her three favourites (Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Mary Roberts Rhinehart), there are some extremely volatie interactions going on between faculty members in the School of Journalism, and sure enough things start happening. Annie, along with her husband Max and her three cohorts find themselves embroiled in a murder. This book was a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed watching it unfold. I especially liked the character development that occured with the regulars in this series.
 Great characters! January 30, 2006
This was my very first Death on Demand mystery, but was not my last! I love the characters and I love mysteries - what could be better? I mystery laced with facts on other mysteries!
 Oh, please. November 8, 2002
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
A class on mysteries being taught in a journalism dept.? This absurdity strained my credibility past the point of being able to enjoy anything about the book.
Annie teaches a little class on murder June 13, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Annie Laurance Darling, owner of the mystery book store Death on Demand, is invited to teach a class on "Three Great Ladies of Mystery" at a local college. She looks forward to the challenge until she discovers that three of her students are her mother-in-law Laurel and two of her cronies. This is only the beginning of her troubles, however, because she soon discerns serious jealousy and in-fighting among faculty members. Before it's all over, there is a suicide, a murder and a bombing. There are lots of suspects and everyone seems to have a motive, so Annie is puzzled as to who's behind all the chaos. This is one of the better books of the series and it contains a lot of humor, and an interesting resolution to the mystery.
Very Enjoyable December 2, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one of the best Death on Demand mysteries.
One of the things that Carolyn does best is combine a little bit of humor with a little bit of mystery. She does that well in this book. Annie is teaching a class about three great mystery writers only to have her plans upset by three ladies of mystery. One is Annie's mother in law, as always, is delightful. Slightly off kilter and yet she is on the mark with most things. The other two are fans of mysteries and known for causing problesm where they go. Very good. Although it is usually easy to figure out who did it by the end of Carolyn Hart's books, it doesn't make it any less of an enjoyable read. THis is one of my favorite Death on Demand mysteries. As an added bonus, you get a lot of references to other mysteries that are good reads as well.
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