Nearly every member of the college is a suspect at one time or another. A professor of Spanish at a small, select college in New England goes to Spain after inheriting a fortune. Five deaths and solutions later, the professor returns to the college to impart his wisdom to his students. All this takes place on the campus of Brunswick College, a select institution of higher learning in Coburg, New Hampshire. The sexual proclivities of a novelist, once a theatre profesor at a small New Hampshire college very much like Dartmouth College, are the focus of this mystery.
Old colleagues drag the past into the present, including a murder on the New Hampshire campus.
Winter Carnival at Bowmouth College is the scene of the crime in this mystery where the locale is clearly a conflation of the Dartmouth and Bowdoin campuses. The editors would be pleased to know of other Dartmouth mysteries, fictional of course. The original typescript of the novel is Dartmouth College Library, Special Collections, MS-596. Orr was a member of the Class of 1922. An annotated bibliography, including a guide to professional series-character sleuths .