An Oxford Tragedy

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Summary: An Academic Whodunit
Review: Here's a delightful murder mystery set at Oxford and written by an Oxford don. Sadly, like many of the excellent Dover mystery series, it is out of print for now. A widely disliked don is found shot through the head in a colleague's rooms, and it becomes a process of elimination to find the culprit. A visiting professor from Vienna by the name of Alfred Brendel acts as a sleuth who discovers the culprit. This is a book whose atmospherics far outweigh the plot. As a mystery, it's a 5; but as a cultural artifact, it's a 10.