The Ivory Tower of academia may look serene from the outside, but inside it's a snakepit. At least according to Sally S. Wright in her wickedly pointed campus mystery, Publish or Perish. The victim here is Richard West, head of the English Department at a tony private college in Ohio and keeper of an academic ethic that belonged to an earlier age. The sleuth is Professor Ben Reese, a smart historian with a nose for crime. After reading Publish or Perish readers may see beneath the staid surface of university life, suspecting page-turning stories hidden from the untutored eye.
The New York Times Book Review, Marilyn Stasio
Ms. Wright gets a little giddy over Ben Reese, the formidably intelligent historian who interprets paltry clues to . . . [a] murder. But this romantic muchness can be overlooked in a story that has a good deal to say about a certain species of scholar who is doomed in modern academe.
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"PUBLISH AND PERISH is put together with polish and precision. It echoes such classic writers as Dorothy Sayers and Ngaio Marsh without in any way imitating them."
--The Washington Times
"Sally Wright puts a clever twist on the campus mystery."
--The New York Times Book Review
Book Description
Millions of mystery novels are purchased every year, and only the Bible has outsold the number of copies purchased of Agatha Christie's titles. Now, author Sally Wright introduces to the Christian marketplace an intriguing new mystery series which follows the adventures of archivist Ben Reese, an expert in rare books, coins, paintings, ancient texts and documents. A former intelligence agent and commando in WWII, Reese - who is also a Christian - repeatedly must extricate himself from dangerous situations, both at home and abroad, in each of the stories novel in this mystery series. In the first title, Ben is called away from a sabbatical in Oxford, England, to investigate the death of an eccentric, conservative professor who dies of a heart attack in Ohio moments after reporting that he has uncovered a terrible act of treachery. Now Ben's own life is on the line as he investigates the professional jealousy and unchecked pride that led to murder in Publish and Perish.
Publish and Perish FROM THE PUBLISHER
INTRODUCING ACADEMIC SLEUTH BEN REESE
A college professor dead under mysterious circumstances. A secretary who hates the victim with lethal ferocity. A vengeful former student. To university archivist and former intelligence agent Ben Reese, the sudden death of his old friend and colleague Richard West, Chair of the English Department, looks like murder, but in a small buttoned-down private college, can it ever be proved? Not until an attack on his own life tells Ben all he needs—and fears—to know about a brilliant, sociopathic killer. . . .
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