Kate Fansler, literary professor, feminist and occasional amateur sleuth has retreated to her secluded cottage. When her eccentric friend Maximillian Reston appears and proposes that she drive him to the home of a recently deceased family friend, she 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. Having identified the dead girl as one of her students the death is later ruled an unfortunate accident but ever curious, Kate sets out to answer her own questions: can her own presence at the scene just be a coincidence? And how much can she really trust Max?
- ISBN10 0345313852
- ISBN13 9780345313850
- Publish Date 12 May 1984 (first published 21 October 1976)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 30 September 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Ballantine Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English