De son vivant déjà, Patrice Umphelby, écrivain et universitaire distinguée, se sentait prédestinée à semer la zizanie. Elle semble bien décidée à persévérer dans l'autre monde. En effet, son "suicide" provoque bien des remous sur un paisible campus de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. La disparue avait beau vouer un culte personnel à la mort, Kate Fansler doute qu'elle ait vraiment mis fin à ses jours. "Cette satanée bonne femme aurait elle-même orchestré son propre meurtre que ça ne serait pas mieux ficelé... Il n'y a nulle part le moindre indice, la moindre peruve...rien !" On n'a jamais vu plus mauvais point de départ pour une enquête !

Une Mort Si Douce

Que fait Janet Mandelbaum, professeur de littérature à Harvard, ivre morte dans une baignoire ? Après avoir résolu L'affaire James Joyce, Kate Fansler mène son enquête sur le campus de l'université de Harvard.Mort à Harvard est un livre ironique, délicieux, un puzzle psychologique qui a obtenu le plus grand prix américain de littérature policière, le Nero Wolfe Award.

Mort à Harvard

Amanda Cross probes into the shadowy past of Cecily Hutchings and her Bloomsbury-like literary circle in The Question of Max, a gripping whodunit from start to end. Once again, Kate Fansler tries to take a break from her full time career as a literature professor and amateur sleuth. She finds refuge in a rural retreat - the last place she thought her friend Max would come to visit. When he asks to be driven to the home of a recently deceased family friend Kate can't resist the opportunity to learn more about of one of her literary heroes, Cecily Hutchins. But what starts as a light-hearted trip to the coast of Maine, ends with Kate discovering a body on the rocky shore. A body of one of her students. Kate takes it upon herself to find out what really happened. Can her own presence at the scene just be a coincidence? And how much can she really trust Max?Follow amateur sleuth Kate Fansler in this gripping murder mystery series, continuing with No Word From Winifred and A Trap for Fools.

The Question of Max

La justice poétique

When professor and amateur sleuth Kate Fansler accompanies a fussy friend to the rocky coast of Maine to peruse the papers of a famous, recently deceased author, she is horrified to come across one of her students, dead. Which leads her to one very important question, namely, would Max stoop so low as to murder...?

A propos de Max (A Kate Fansler Mystery #5)

It's New York City, 1970, and student riots have ravaged the university where Professor Kate Fansler teaches Victorian literature to mature students. The survival of the University College is in doubt, especially as their President Jeremiah Cudlipp is determined to shut it down. In the midst of balancing dissertation proposals with the politics of academia, Kate is faced with insurmountable odds. But armed with a handful of rebellious colleagues, the poetry of W. H. Auden, and her new fiancé, she is not one to give up. Kate is willing to fight to the death for her college, but only a miracle - or perhaps a murder - can save their beloved institution .

Poetic Justice

Literature professor and amateur sleuth Kate Fansler is taking a well-earned sabbatical with her new husband, Reed. However, her martini filled evenings are soon interrupted by a desperate appeal from her former and beloved Theban School to cover classes on Antigone. Not wanting to deprive students from Antigone's brilliance she rushes to New York, finding the Greek heroine's subversive will mirrored in her students who are caught up in the rebellion of protests, sex, and drugs. All is fun and chaos until a dead body is discovered in the old school building, can Kate get to the bottom of this sinister literary allusion?Amanda Cross's The Theban Mysteries will take you back to your school years and capture your attention till the very end. Follow amateur sleuth Kate Fansler in this gripping murder mystery series, continuing with The Question of Max and No Word From Winifred.

The Theban Mysteries

Kate Fansler is vacationing in the sweet and harmless Berkshires, sorting through the letters of Henry James. But when her next-door neighbor is murdered, and all her houseguests are prime suspects, her idyll turns prosaic, indeed....

L'affaire James Joyce

Taking its name from a Rudyard Kipling poem and littered with his verses throughout, A Trap for Fools is a novel about overcoming adversity, and one of Amanda Cross's best mysteries. Campus security found the body of Canfield Adams early on Sunday morning, seven stories below the open window of his office. To the police there is one easy assumption, but anyone who knew Canfield knows he would never have jumped. University officials ask literature Professor and amateur sleuth Kate Fansler to investigate the death of their precious professor, and she find a myriad of people, both on and off campus, who could have pushed him. However, Kate suspects the university has an ulterior motive .

A Trap for Fools

Janet Harrison a été assassinée dans le cabinet du psychanalyste Emanuel Bauer, qu'elle voyait depuis 7 semaines. Elle a été poignardée avec un couteau provenant de la cuisine de Bauer. La police peut-elle imaginer un seul instant un psychanalyste capable de tuer une patiente sur son propre divan ? C'est une question que se pose Kate Fansler.C'est une question d'autant plus pertinente que c'est elle qui a adressé Janet , une de ses étudiantes, à son ami Bauer.

En dernière analyse

les rêves sont le miroir parfait de nos émotions les plus secrètes.
 même si les plus jeunes enfants ont du mal à exprimer verbalement ce dont ils ont rêvé, cela ne signifie pas pour autant que leurs émotions sont imprécises.  une fois endormis, ils sont capables de recréer tout ce qu'ils ont souhaité ou redouté dans la journée.  lecture essentielle pour tous les parents, cet ouvrage vous aidera à : expliquer les rêves les plus répandus chez les enfants de 3 à 10 ans ; détecter leurs espoirs et leurs inquiétudes ; les aider à gérer leurs cauchemars ou terreurs nocturnes ; comprendre leur personnalité à travers leurs pensées subconscientes.

Comment interpreter les reves de vos enfants

Amanda Cross captivates us with strong women and astounding adventure in this gripping mystery, No Word From Winifred. Literature Professor Kate Fansler is asked once again to turn her talents to private investigation when Winifred Ashby - honorary niece of Oxford scholar and novelist Charlotte Stanton - inexplicably disappears from her quiet farmhand life. Using Winifred's journal and Charlotte's novels as her only available sources, Kate must follow a convoluted trail through Oxford to Santa Cruz before finally untangling the secrets of Winifred's past. But Kate's investigation reveals far more than she anticipated as sinister issues of illegitimacy and inheritance arise .

No Word From Winifred

Amanda Cross examines relationships and human nature in The Players Come Again, a thought-provoking novel about literature, feminism and ageing. The 80s are coming to a close and Kate Fansler is using this time to tie up loose ends. Having completed a work of literary criticism - and vowing it will be her last - Kate enjoys lunch with editor Simon Pearlstine, indulging in her usual vodka martini. There is no rest for the wicked as he commissions her to write a biography of reclusive Gabrielle Foxx, the quiet wife of a famous modernist author. Kate discovers there is more to Gabrielle than meets the eye, and in order to trace the Foxx family's complicated history she must track down three important women from Gabrielle's past: Anne, Dorinda and Nellie. But the further Kate probes into Gabrielle's history the darker the secrets she uncovers .

The Players Come Again

When Janet Harrison asks her English Professor Kate Fansler to recommend a psychoanalyst, no one could have imagined that Janet's body would be discovered on his couch two months later. Kate can't believe that her old friend Emanuel Bauer could be a murderer, even though Janet was killed in his office using a knife from his kitchen. With help from a team of close companions she sets out to discover the truth, something the police seem happy to ignore. Could the killer be the advertising executive who had his appointment before Janet? Or the lecturer who attends the appointment afterwards? And what about the handsome doctor in the office across the hall?Amanda Cross's tense, taut mystery In the Last Analysis will keep you enthralled and on the edge of your seat until the very last page.'Amanda Cross delighted readers with Kate Fansler .

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