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Academic Mysteries

These are
mysteries that take place in academia
or that feature professors, graduate students, etc.



     


Single Titles     Series

 

Single Titles

 
Parting Breath  Catherine Aird
Hangman's Root  Susan Wittig Albert
Murder in the Museum of Man  Alfred Alcorn
Quaker Witness  Irene Allen
Death of a Old Goat  Robert Barnard
The Body in the Volvo  K.K. Beck
The Seventh Sacrament  James Bradberry
Murder Scholastic  Janet Caird
Double Negative  David Carkeet
Killing Time  Caleb Carr
Cat Among the Pigeons  Agatha Christie
Max Allan Collins
    A Shroud for Aquarius
    Nice Weekend for Murder
A Knife in the Back  Bill Crider
The Queen is Dead  Jane Dentinger
Snowstorms in a Hot Climate  Sarah Dunant
The Lost Keats  Terence Faherty
Oxford Blue  Antonia Fraser
Well-schooled in Murder  Elizabeth George
Paula Gosling
    Monkey Puzzle
    Backlash
Lethal Genes  Linda Grant
An Academic Death  J.M. Gregson
Literary Murder  Batya Gur
A Secret Rage  Charlaine Harris
Carolyn Hart
   The Rich Die Young
   A Little Class on Murder
   Death in Lover's Lane
The Student Body  Jane Harvard
An Advancement of Learning  Reginald Hill
Death at the President's Lodging  Michael Innes
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman  P.D. James
Murder at the MLA  D.J.H. Jones
A Carol in the Dark  Cathleen Jordan
Bearing Witness  Michael A. Kahn
That Day the Rabbi Left Town  Harry Kemelman
Irregardless of Murder  Ellen Kennedy
Graves in Academe  Susan Kenney
The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed  Janice Law
The Finishing School  Michele Martinez
An Oxford Tragedy  J.C. Masterman
She Walks These Hills  Sharyn McCrumb
Killing the Shadows  Val McDermid
The Search Committee  Ralph McInerny
Falconer's Crusade  Ian Morson
Overnight Float  Clare Munnings
Death Among the Dons  Janet Neel
Double Take  Susan Oleksiw
A Novena for Murder  Carol Anne O'Marie
The Dons and Mr. Dickens  William J. Palmer
Robert B. Parker
     Godwulf Manuscript
     Hush Money
Murder is Academic  Christine Poulson
Gaudy Night  Dorothy L. Sayers
An Occasional Hell  Randall Silvis
Two Murders in My Double Life  Josef Skvorecky
Murder at Markham  Patricia H. Sprinkle
A Body for a Buddy  Aaron Marc Stein
Miss Pym Disposes  Josephine Tey
Seaside  Scarlet Thomas
The Princeton Murders  Ann Waldron
Death by Degrees  Eric Wright
Cast for Death  Margaret Yorke
 

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Series
(Series titles below reflect library collection. Other titles in the series or by that author may not be owned by us.)
Penelope Spring, anthropologist & Sir Toby Glendower, archeologist by Margot Arnold
    (see Archaeology & Anthropology)

Nick Travers, ex-football player, blues historian, & part-time Tulane instructor
by Ace Atkins
     (see Southern Mysteries)

 

Professor Lizbeth Stuart, VA crime historian by Frankie Y. Bailey

    1. Death's Favorite Child
    2. A Dead Man's Honor
           Other titles in series

 

Molly Rafferty, history prof in Boston by Sophie Belfort

    1. Eyewitness to Murder
           Other titles in series

Sarah Deane, in English department in Maine by J.S. Borthwick
    1. The Case of the Hook-Billed Kites
    2. The Down East Murders
    3. The Student Body
    4. Bodies of Water
    5. Dude on Arrival
    6. The Bridled Groom
    7. Dolly is Dead
    8. The Garden Plot
    9. My Body Lies Over the Ocean
  10. Coup de Grace
  11. Murder in the Rough
  12. Intensive Scare Unit

Joanne Kilbourn, political science professor in Canada
by Gail Bowen
    1. A Colder Kind of Death
    2. Verdict in Blood   
    3. Burying Ariel
          Other titles in series

 

Jamie Ramsgill, an architect and Princeton professor by James Bradberry

    1. The Seventh Sacrament
           Other titles in series

 

Henry Pym, a zoologist cum amateur detective at Huntley-May Grammar School by W.J. Burley

    1. Death in Willow Pattern
           Other titles in series

Maggie Ryan, statistician/professor in New York
by P.M. Carlson
    1. Murder Misread
    2. Bad Blood
          Other titles in series

Hilary Tamar: professor of medieval law at Oxford by Sarah Caudwell
    
(
see Humorous Mysteries)

Dr. Robert “Mongo” Frederickson, criminology professor
by
George C. Chesbro
    1. The Beasts of Valhalla
    2. Two Songs This Archangel Sings
    3. Second Horseman Out of Eden
    4. The Language of Cannibals
    5. The Fear in Yesterday's Rings
    6. Dark Chant in a Crimsom Key
    7. An Incident at Bloodtide
    8. Bleeding in the Eye of a Brainstorm
    9. Dream of a Falling Eagle
          Other titles in series

Paula Glenning, English professor and author in London
by Anna Clarke
    1. Last Judgement
    2. Cabin 3033
    3. The Mystery Lady
    4. Last Seen in London
    5. Murder in Writing
    6. The Case of the Paranoid Patient
    7. The Whitelands Affair
           Other titles in series

 

Jackie Walsh, film instructor at Rodgers University by Melissa Cleary

    1. Hounded to Death 
       Other titles in series

 

Chief Inspector Morse in Oxford by Colin Dexter

     1. Last Bus to Woodstock
     2. Last Seen Wearing
     3. The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
     4. Service of All the Dead
     5. The Dead of Jericho
     6. The Riddle of the Third Mile
     7. The Wench is Dead
     8. The Jewel that was Ours
     9. The Way Through the Woods
    10. Morse's Greatest Hits and Other Stories
    11. The Daughters of Cain
    12. Death is Now My Neighbor
    13. The Remorseful Day
            Other titles in series

Lindsay Chamberlain, U. of Ga. Forensic archaeologist/anthropologist
by Beverly Connor
    
(
see Archaeology & Anthropology)

Dr. John Dobie, mathematics professor in Cardiff, Wales by Desmond Cory
    1. The Mask of Zeus
    2. The Dobie Paradox
           Other titles in series

 

Claire Gray, theatrical director by Michael Craft

    1. Desert Autumn
           Other titles in series

Carl Burns, professor of English in Texas by Bill Crider
    1. One Dead Dean
    2. Dying Voices
    3. ...A Dangerous Thing
          Other titles in series

 

Dr. Sally Good, Chair English Dept. at Texas Community College by Bill Crider

     1. Murder is an Art
     2. A Knife in the Back
     3. A Bond with Death

Gervase Fen, professor of Language & Literature at Oxford by Edmund Crispin
    1. The Moving Toyshop
    2. Buried For Pleasure
    3. Frequent Hearses
    4. The Long Divorce
    5. The Case of the Gilded Fly
    6. The Glimpses of the Moon
           Other titles in series

Kate Fansler, English professor in New York by Amanda Cross
     1. In the Last Analysis
    2. The James Joyce Murder
    3. Poetic Justice
    4. The Theban Mysteries
    5. Death in a Tenured Position
    6. Sweet Death, Kind Death
    7. No Word From Winifred
    8. A Trap For Fools
    9. The Players Come Again
  10. An Imperfect Spy
  11. The Puzzled Heart
  12. Honest Doubt
  13. The Edge of Doom
          Other titles in series

 

Sophie Rivers, college lecturer and amateur singer by Judith Cutler

    1. Dying to Deceive
          Other titles in series

Neal Kelly, professor of English at a New England school by S.F.X. Dean
    1. Such Pretty Toys
    2. It Can't Be My Grave
    3. Death and the Mad Heroine
    4. Nantucket Soap Opera
           Other titles in series

Niccolo Benedetti, famous criminologist professor in Sparta, New York by William L. DeAndrea
    1. The Werewolf Murders
    2. The Manx Murders
           Other titles in series

Karen Pelletier, English professor in Enfield, Massachusetts by Joanne Dobson
    1. Quieter Than Sleep
    2. The Northbury Papers
    3. The Raven and the Nightingale
    4. Cold and Pure and Very Dead
    5. The Maltese Manuscript

 

Connor Burke, college professor and martial arts student by John Donohue

     1. Sensei
     2. Deshi

Gideon Oliver, anthropology prof, a.k.a “the Skeleton Detective”
by Aaron Elkins
    
(
see Archaeology & Anthropology)
Faye Longchamp, black archaeology student on Florida's Gulf coast by Mary Anna Evans
    1. Artifacts
    2. Relics

Andrew Basnett, retired botany professor in England by E.X. Ferrars
    1. Something Wicked
    2. Root of All Evil
    3. The Crime and the Crystal
    4. The Other Devil's Name
    5. A Murder Too Many
    6. Smoke Without Fire
    7. A Choice of Evils
          Other titles in series

 

Thea Kozak, educational consultant in Mass. by Kate Clark Flora

    1. Chosen for Death
    2. Death at the Wheel
    3. An Educated Death
    4. Death in Paradise
    5. Liberty of Death

 

Michael Branden, college professor in Ohio Amish country by Paul Gaus

    1. Blood of the Prodigal
    2. Broken English
    3. Clouds Without Rain
    4. Cast a Blue Shadow
    5. A Prayer for the Night

 

Matthew Bartholomew 14th century teacher and physician by Susanna Gregory

   1. An Unholy Alliance
   2. A Bone of Contention
   3. A Plague on Both Your Houses
   4. The Hand of Justice
          Other titles in series

Anneke Haagen, University of Michigan computer consultant by Susan Holtzer
    1. Something to Kill For
    2. Curly Smoke
    3. Bleeding Maize and Blue
    4. Black Diamond
    5. The Silly Season
    6. The Wedding Game
    7. Better Than Sex

 

Kate Teaque, history teacher in California by Wendy Hornsby

    1. No Harm
    2. Half a Mind

 

Maggie Olenski, young high school math teacher in Baltimore by Mary Ellen Hughes

    1. A Taste of Death
          Other titles in series

Bel Barrett, Jersey Community College professor by Jane Isenberg
    1. The "M" Word
    2. Death in a Hot Flash
    3. Midlife Can Be Murder
    4. Out of Hormone's Way
    5. Hot on the Trail
           Other titles in series

Gillian Adams, PhD history from Cambridge now at Vancouver by Nora Kelly
    1. In the Shadow of Kings
    2. Old Wounds
    3. Hot Pursuit
          Other titles in series

Laura & English professor husband, Richard Fleming by Toni Kelner
      (see Southern Mysteries)

Calista Jacobs, illustrator of children's books at Cambridge by Kathryn Lasky Knight
    
(see Bibliomysteries)

Peggy O'Neill, campus cop at a fictionalized U. of Minnesota by M.D. Lake
    1. Amends For Murder
    2. Midsummer Malice
          Other titles in series

Homer & Mary Kelly, Harvard professors by Jane Langton
    
(see Bibliomysteries)

Winston Marlowe Sherman, professor of Shakespeare by M.K. Lorens
    1. Sweet Narcissus
    2. Dreamland
    3. Sorrowheart
          Other titles in series

 

Thomas Martindale, journalism professor at Oregon State University by Ron Lovell

    1. Murder at Yaquina Head
           Other titles in series

Peter Shandy, botany professor at Balaclava Agricultural College
by Charlotte MacLeod
    1. Rest Ye Merry
    2. The Luck Runs Out
    3. Wrack and Rune
    4. Something the Cat Dragged In
    5. The Curse of the Giant Hogweed
    6. The Corpse in Oozak's Pond
    7. Vane Pursuit
    8. An Owl Too Many
    9. Something in the Water
  10. Exit the Milkman

 

Tamara Hoyland, archaeologist and British secret agent by Jessica Mann

    1. No Man's Island
    2. Grave Goods
    3. Death Beyond the Nile
    4. Faith, Hop and Homicide
          Other titles in series

Elizabeth MacPherson, PhD in forensic anthropology by Sharyn McCrumb
    
(see Archaeology & Anthropology)

 

James Omega, engineering prof and SF author by Sharyn McCrumb

    1. Bimbos of the Death Sun
    2. Zombies of the Gene Pool

Roger Knight, a philosophy professor at the U. of Notre Dame by Ralph McInerny
    1. On This Rockne
    2. Lack of the Irish
    3. Irish Tenure
    4. The Book of Kills
    5. Emerald Aisle
    6. Celt and Pepper
    7. Irish Coffee
    8. Green Thumb
    9. Irish Gilt

 

Ginger Barnes, a Philadelphia headmaster's wife by Donna Huston Murray

   1. Lie Like a Rug
         Other titles in series

 

Juliet Bodine, Ex English Professor by Ellen Pall

    1. Corpse de Ballet
    2. Slightly Abridged

 

Imogen Quy, college nurse in England by Jill Paton Walsh

    1. The Wyndham Case
    2. Debts of Dishonor
           Other titles in series

 

Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, archaeologists in Egypt by Elizabeth Peters

    (see Archaeology & Anthropology)


Jacqueline Kirby, NY Librarian Turned Romance Novelist by Elizabeth Peters
    
(
see Bibliomysteries)

Nick Hoffman,
gay English professor at State Univ.of Michigan
by Lev Raphael
    1. The Edith Wharton Murders
    2. The Death of a Constant Lover
    3. Little Miss Evil
          Other titles in series

 

Amanda Pepper, Philadelphia high school teacher by Gillian Roberts

   1. Caught Dead in Philadelphia
   2. Philly Stakes
   3. I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia
   4. With Friends Like These