Review: A Bit Outdated But Still A Good Mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2014
This nifty mystery was first published in 1983, about a woman academic  single mother who is making a small living by doing research for writers.  She does her research in a library!!!!!  It is hard to remember that this is practically an historical novel, and the reader .... OK, ME...... keeps wanting to say, just use google.  At one point, she has a series of dates for which she would like to know the days on which they fell.  So she has to take two buses to go to the library simply to find a book which gives that info.  Boy, our lives are so much simpler now.OK, so she is researching for unsolved murders for a crime writer.  He will pick one or two and delve deeply into it for his next book.  What she finds are unsolved serial murders, a group in Oxford, England, which happened around the time she and her hubby were students there.  Then another group in the Cambridge, Mass. area about a year later, then some time later another group in Kansas, and a group in Ohio.She is getting in touch with old college mates at this time, and comes to realize that a number of her friends and acquaintances where in these places at the same time.  Could it be ....... ?She is beginning to be followed, and is even attacked one night.  Then her apartment is totally tossed, and it is apparent to both her and the crime writer that someone knows she is researching this and is afraid of what she will uncover.Great mystery, and a truly surprise ending, but shouldn't be -- all the clues were there all along.