In 1970, at a community college near Pittsburgh, an imperious senior professor is found dead in his office, killed by an injection of potassium cyanide into his carotid artery. By-the-book Detective Peters immediately suspects a young assistant professor, William Gavin, of the murder because of known friction between him and the victim. To clear his name, the unassuming teacher is thrust into the improbable role of amateur sleuth, and into an ambivalent association with the earnest but unimaginative Peters - who, though perplexed and perturbed by the academic's unorthodox mode of...
In 1970, at a community college near Pittsburgh, an imperious senior professor is found dead in his office, killed by an injection of potassium cyanid...
