When Professor Daly is called out of his comfortable retirement at Crane’s Court to deliver a series of lectures at his old college in Dublin, he is surprised to discover how little he has missed academia and how eccentric, not to say vicious, his former colleagues now seem to him. He soon learns he has another job to do: find out who has been sending death threats to Professor Bradley, the new and almost universally disliked president of the college. To this end he enlists the aid of his old friend Inspector Mike Kenney, who like the rest of his fellow Guards is terrified at the prospect of dealing with the egocentric faculty. First published in 1956, this third and final mystery by the author is a witty and perceptive look at professors behaving badly, a subject that as a faculty wife herself she had ample experience of.

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