Publish And Perish

by sally wright

Overview

A college professor dead under mysterious circumstances. A secretary who hates the victim with lethal ferocity. A vengeful former student. To university archivist, 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 aobut a brilliant, sociopathic killer. . . .

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013247444
Publisher:	Sally Wright
Publication date:	10/25/2011
Series:	ben reeese mysteries , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	613 KB

About the Author

Sally Wright, a 2001 Edgar Finalist, has studied rare books, early explorers, painting restoration, WWII tech-teams, the Venona Code, and more, to write her university-archivist-ex-/WWII-Scout books about Ben Reese, who's based on a real person. Sally and her husband live in the country with various animals and too many gardens to take care of.

Editorial Reviews

“[In Publish And Perish] she plays fair with her clues. She also takes us through scenes of physical agony and moral squalor, domestic tranquility and down-to-earth common sense; and when the murderer is finally run to ground - still blaming everyone but himself for what he has done - “why” falls into place with “how.”

Linda Bridges

“Sally Wright, in Publish And Perish, has wrought a novel of exquisite wit and charm. Alternating between Oxford and the U.S., the story skewers some of the more subtle absurdities of academe via a mystery story that combines the best of the two traditions, American and British. With this novel, Sally Wright both publishes and flourishes.”

Ralph McInery

“Sally S. Wright puts a clever twist on the campus mystery [in Publish And Perish] . . . a story that has a good deal to say about a certain species of scholar who is doomed in modern academe.”

Marilyn Stasio

“Wright’s cunning achievement in this work lies in her well-wrought characterization of her conflicted hero sleuth, Ben Reese. This detective story dares to venture from an exclusively rationalistic approach: Reese in an erudite investigator who, in addition to relying on his considerable cerebral acumen, admits to having a soul . . . Like both Sayers and Lewis, Wright’s first novel proves she is adept at sculpting multifaceted characters . . . Reese cannot be confined to th

Sheree Brown