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The death of a Cambridge chemist brings historian-turned-sleuth Gillian Adams into an investigation in which the mixture of modern science and mores with time-honored tradition proves volatile. By the author of My Sister's Keeper.
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Nora Kelly grew up in New Jersey and spent summers on Cape Cod. While living in Cambridge she wrote her first Gillian Adams mystery, In the Shadow of King’s (reprinted by Poisoned Pen Press, 1999).Old Wounds, her fourth, won the 1999 Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award from the Canadian Crime Writers Association. The author lives in Vancouver, BC, where she teaches part-time.
Vancouver history professor Gillian Adams and Scotland Yard Detective Chief Inspector Edward Gisborne meet in Cambridge, England, for what becomes a working vacation after chemist Wendy Fowler is found dead in a university laboratory. Clever and unashamedly ambitious, Wendy was resented by some of her male academic colleagues; her habitual brusqueness put off even the women with whom she did volunteer work at the local pregnancy counseling center. Loaned to the Cambridge constabulary, Edward looks for a killer who clearly had inside knowledge of the lab's setup. Meanwhile Gillian, whose friend Bee Hamilton also works at the counseling center, keeps those there apprised of the investigation, which heats up when a teenage client is found in a shallow grave in woods not far from Bee's home. While Kelly ( My Sister's Keeper ) effectively integrates her feminist ideas with the story line as her levelheaded sleuths work towards a solution, most readers will probably wish for a few more puzzle crumbs along the way: until late in the game, the biggest clue is only that someone opposed to the main cast's accepted politics could have commited the dirty deeds.
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- PublisherHarper Collins
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0006478530
- ISBN 13 9780006478539
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. The death of a scientist in Cambridge shocks the university and the town. A s the police investigates a Canadian academic, in Cambridge for the summer, finds herself in the midst of the inquiry, linked to the victim by friends and to the police by her affair with a Scotland Yard detective. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000065117
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. 252 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper Collins Publishers, London, 1994. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Canadian historian Gillian Adams finds herself back in Cambridge. She's set to enjoy that lovely city in high summer--and her romance with Scotland Yard Detective Chief Inspector Edward Gisborne, even though he's tying up a child-killing case in Lambeth. Then the death of a research fellow in the Department of Chemistry shocks both the university and the town. Gillian is linked to the victim through old friends and to the Cambridge police through Edward. Ideally placed to investigate Wendy Fowler's murder, she turns up evidence of venomous professional rivalries and at least one clandestine liaison. Not to mention that Wendy, a volunteer at the Pregnancy Information Service, is herself pregnant. Then a second body turns up. There is no compelling evidence to link it to Wendy, nor to the motives ascribed to the suspects in her death. As the police sift the facts, Gillian looks at the crimes from a feminist perspective, seeing that that science, contemporary mores, and more conservative traditions have produced a volatile--indeed, fatal--mixture. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN: 0006478530. ISBN/EAN: 9780006478539. Inventory No: 10024236. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. Seller Inventory # 10024236
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