No Word from Winifred

Kate Fansler Mystery #8

by Amanda Cross

Once more Kate Fansler, Professor of English and part-time detective, is called from academic life to investigate an unsolved disappearance. Winifred Ashby, honorary niece of Charlotte Stanton, principal of an Oxford college and popular novelist, leaves the seclusion of a New England farm for London to meet Charlie Lucas, whom she has approved as official biographer of her 'aunt'. But, after one informative meeting with Charlie, Winifred mysteriously vanishes. Armed only with Winifred's enigmatic journal, Charlotte Stanton's novels and a piece of folded plastic with a pin int he back, Jate must use her intuition and intelligence to follow a meagre traile which leads from Oxford to a Modern Languages Association convention in New York, to Santa Cruz and, finally, to the unravelling of Winifred's secret past. Can her baffling disappearance mean,a s Kate feels in her bones, that she is dead? And, if not, why has there been no word from Winifred? Playing with the lives of three literary women - Dorothy L. Sayers, Mary Renault and Muriel St Clare Byrne - this highly entertaining novel subtly explores the riddles of friendship, inheritance, illegitimacy and passion.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Crime, 20th Century, Womens, Cozy Mystery, Cozy

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

A psuedonym of Carolyn G. Heilbrun.

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