The Princeton Impostor

by Ann Waldron

Book Overview

Twenty years ago, Dan Flores's Caprock Canyonlands became one of the first books ever to treat the flat, arid landscape of the southern High Plains as a place of uncommon beauty and enduring spirit. Now a classic, Caprock Canyonlands has been favorably compared by readers to the work of such icons of nature and environmental writing as William Bartram, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Henry David Thoreau. Containing the author's stunning photography,...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425213625
• ISBN13: 9780425213629
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

"Death is academic" number five

McLeod Dulaney is a Florida journalist who has landed a great gig: teaching writing at Princeton University one semester a year. Coincidentally, every time she's up in New Jersey, she's involved in a murder investigation on campus. Inquisitive by nature, McLeod makes every attempt to solve the murder. She gets close to the truth but often comes to a slightly incorrect conclusion. In this fifth installment in the series, we learn more about the class McLeod teaches and the students she comes in contact with. Greg Pierre, her best writing student, has evidently enrolled under a pseudonym to avoid legal charges from his home out West. After a grad student alerts school authorities to Greg's deception, the informant is found murdered in the chemistry lab. McLeod comes to Greg's rescue and tries to find out who was responsible for the murder. A second murder follows, and McLeod keeps asking questions. Will she figure everything out before she's next? And what's the status of her relationship with police investigator Nick Perry? How about her housemate and host, George Bridges? The episodes in this series are like bags of potato chips: you can't stop at just one. Though the general writing style and the unraveling of each mystery won't set the world on fire, the books are entertaining enough -- especially for folks who are connected to Princeton or to any academic atmosphere where similar circumstances could certainly arise.