Shortly after unveiling an unpopular plan to turn Hartley Gorman College, a small Baptist college in Texas, into a diploma mill, Dean Elmore is found bludgeoned to death at his desk

Carl Burns, a professor of English at a Texas fundamentalist college, prepares for the seminar he will teach on the poet Edward Street—never expecting to find the poet's murder on the syllabus

Hartley Gorman College is being attacked by the forces of political correctness, the new dean—a hippie who has just bought two goats—is not going to work out, and Professor Carl Burns suddenly has a whodunit on his hands

An Anthony and Shamus Award-nominated Author The author of the acclaimed Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystery series is back with a new mystery novel set against the normally placid backdrop of academia. First, someone steals several valuable toy soldiers from the collection of the dean of a small liberal arts college. Then a college board member is shot and killed, and one of the stolen soldiers is found at the scene. Available only in Mystery 4.