Amanda Cross

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Traces and redefines the lives of noted women using a new and distinctly feminine voice and language, thereby giving equal weight to the ambitions and choices of women. Reader's Guide included. Reissue.

Writing a Woman's Life

Professor Carolyn G Heilbrun

The feminist writer and author of the Amanda Cross mystery series looks back on a youthful pledge to commit suicide at seventy, explaining why, given that her sixties have been her happiest decade, she decided not to take her life

Life Beyond Sixty

The Last Gift of Time

In a new edition of the first Kate Fansler Mystery, the English professor turns sleuth when her close friend and former lover, Manhattan psychoanalyst Dr. Emanuel Bauer, becomes the prime suspect in the stabbing murder of one of his patients, beautiful Janet Harrison, a young woman who Kate had referred to Dr. Bauer. Reprint.

In the Last Analysis

The James Joyce Murder (A Kate Fansler Mystery) (Kate Fansler Novels)

Sweet Death, Kind Death

In these nine stories from "the master of the American literary whodunit", dangerous impulses seize the most unlikely individuals, and everyday existence is fast eclipsed by the bizarre. Unforgettable characters probe baffling riddles: the enigma of a nameless toddler who walks out of the bushes one New England summer afternoon... the theft of a seventeenth-century painting from a lonely Texas convent... the reappearance of a missing Constable drawing just where it can cause the most trouble... and other mysteries, many starring the incomparable private investigator Kate Fansler. A Mystery Guild Selection.

The Collected Stories

When beautiful Janet Harrison asks English professor Kate Fansler to recommend a Manhattan psychoanalyst, Kate immediately sends the girl to her dear friend and former lover, Dr. Emanuel Bauer. Seven weeks later, the girl is stabbed to death on Emanuel's couch--with incriminating fingerprints on the murder weapon. To Kate, the idea of her brilliant friend killing anyone is preposterous, but proving it seems an impossible task. For Janet had no friends, no lover, no family. Why, then, should someone feel compelled to kill her? Kate's analytic techniques leave no stone unturned--not even the one under which a venomous killer once again lies coiled and ready to strike. . . .

Amanda Cross probes into the shadowy past of Cecily Hutchings and her Bloomsbury-like literary circle in The Question of Max, a gripping whodunit from start to end. Once again, Kate Fansler tries to take a break from her full time career as a literature professor and amateur sleuth. She finds refuge in a rural retreat - the last place she thought her friend Max would come to visit. When he asks to be driven to the home of a recently deceased family friend Kate can't resist the opportunity to learn more about of one of her literary heroes, Cecily Hutchins. But what starts as a light-hearted trip to the coast of Maine, ends with Kate discovering a body on the rocky shore. A body of one of her students. Kate takes it upon herself to find out what really happened. Can her own presence at the scene just be a coincidence? And how much can she really trust Max? Follow amateur sleuth Kate Fansler in this gripping murder mystery series, continuing with No Word From Winifred and A Trap for Fools.

The Question of Max

Death in a tenured position

The first 3 Kate Fansler Mysteries - In the Last Analysis/The James Joyce Murder/Poetic Justice.

The First Three Kate Fansler Mysteries

Triple Cross

Collected for the first time, the author's short stories starring detective Kate Fansler include the case of a nameless toddler who ambles out of the bushes one New England summer afternoon, along with a previously unpublished case.

Amanda Cross musters up an ingenious solution to an impossible scenario in this penetrating literary mystery, The James Joyce Murder. On the famous Joycean day of June 16th, Kate Fansler attends the annual Bloomsday celebration, kicking off the start to an idyllic and literary summer. But in the company of an exuberant young nephew and two graduate students, there is not much time for peace and quiet. The idyll is further shattered when an unpleasant next-door neighbour is found murdered. Although the murder appears to have no connection to the day’s celebrations, no one can shake the suspicion that James Joyce is somehow linked, not even unliterary police inspector Stratton. Kate is determined to find the solution to this extraordinary murder, even if she finds the culprit in her own home . . . Follow amateur sleuth Kate Fansler in this gripping murder mystery series, continuing with Poetic Justice and The Theban Mysteries.

The James Joyce Murder

When Janet Mandelbaum is made the first woman professor at Harvard's English Department, the men are not happy. They are unhappier still when her tea is spiked and she is found drunk on the floor of the women's room. With a little time, Janet's dear friend and colleague Kate Fansler could track down the culprit, but time is running out....

Death in a Tenured Position

Researching a biography of the wife of a controversial novelist, Kate Fansler begins to suspect her subject's childhood friends of hiding a murderous secret about their lives together

The Players Come Again

Als die schöne Janet Harrison ihre Literaturprofessorin Kate Fansler bittet, einen Psychoanalytiker in Manhattan zu empfehlen, schickt Kate das Mädchen zu ihrem lieben Freund und früheren Liebhaber Dr. Emanuel Bauer. Sieben Wochen später wird das Mädchen auf Emanuels Couch erstochen – mit belastenden Fingerabdrücken auf der Mordwaffe. Für Kate ist der Gedanke, dass ihr bester Freund jemanden tötet, abwegig. Aber wie seine Unschuld beweisen? Janet hatte keine Freunde, keinen Liebhaber, keine Familie. Warum sollte jemand sie töten? Kates analytischen Fähigkeiten lassen keinen Stein auf dem anderen.

Ein Fall für Kate Fansler

Die letzte Analyse

When Janet Mandelbaum is made the first woman professor at Harvard's English Department, the men are not happy. They are unhappier still when her tea is spiked and she is found drunk on the floor of the women's room. With a little time, Janet's dear friend and colleague Kate Fansler could track down the culprit, but time is running out.... Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Student riots have ravaged the distinguished New York City university where Kate Fansler teaches. In the ensuing disarray, the survival of the university's plebeian stepchild, University College, seems doubtful. President Jeremiah Cudlipp is snobbishly determined to ax it; and as sycophantic professors fall in line behind him, the rally of Kate and few rebellious colleagues seems doomed. It is a fight to the death, and only a miracle--or perhaps a murder--can save their beloved institution. . . .

Poetic Justice

Amanda Cross is master of the American literary whodunit. In her delicately menacing short fiction, assembled here in one volume, dangerous impulses seize the most unlikely individuals, and everyday existence is fast eclipsed by the bizarre. Among the compelling intrigues: The cold-blooded murder of Mrs. Byron Lloyd, shot dead during a writers' panel discussion . . . the enigma of the nameless toddler who walks out of the bushes one New England summer afternoon . . . the reappearance of a missing Constable drawing just where it can cause the most trouble . . . and other wonderful mysteries, many of which star the incomparable amateur sleuth Kate Fansler.

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