Lostlindens

Ivory Tower Mystery #2

by David D. Nolta

Hiawatha and Antigone Musing -- siblings, professors, and part-time sleuths -- return in the highly anticipated second of the Ivory Tower Mystery series, this time puzzling through a pair of murderers that occur at the grand English estate Lostlindens, where they have traveled with a group of American college students to view a priceless Shakespearean relic. FIC022000

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

David D. Nolta refers to his own life as "a manifestation of the charmed but highly insecure existence of the eternal student" (he went directly from high school to college (The University of Michigan), then directly to graduate school in English Literature (University of Chicago), transferring to another graduate school to pursue art history (Yale University).

This lifelong intimacy with scholars and scholarship has resulted in the creation of an astounding number of unique and memorable characters and situations. Some of Nolta's favorite targets are scholarly pomposity and hypocrisy, sexual pride and naiveté, anglophilia, and academic envy.

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 2 out of 5]

a cute and humorous book, very light and quick reading, in the genre of the English house murder mystery

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

An amusing academic mystery---nothing more; nothing less.