An odious Dean in a small college is murdered. His behavior had been so egregiously obnoxious that nearly all the faculty has motive to kill him. Professor Carl Burns sifts through the murky evidence to solve the case.
This mystery set in a small Texas denominational college is a little better than just okay. The mystery itself is interesting; Professor Burns is certainly smart and different from the usual sort of investigator. Some of the jokes are clever. Maybe it’s just the general 80’s ambience and the two or three very repetitive jokes, but I wanted a lot more from this book than I got. It was good enough to try another, though, to see if i like that better. ( )

I'd totally forgotten what a wonderful snarkfest Bill Crider's writing is! And the laid-back performance by Dean Sluyter is the perfect showcase for this form of humor. I will admit to being thankful that Sluyter did not give the performance in Southern or Texan drawl, as I often find the speech somewhat incomprehensible to my ears.
The basic tale is retro to the late 1980s on the campus of a denominational college. Carl Burns is the normally non-descript professor who discovers the body of a very unpopular dean and then gets entangled in further misadventures. A fun read whether you went to college or not. No gratuitous foul language, explicit violence, or sex.

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