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Death in a Tenured Position (Hardcover)

by Amanda Cross (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 156 pages
  • Publisher: E P Dutton (Mar 1981)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0525089357
  • ISBN-13: 978-0525089353
  • Product Dimensions: 25.2 x 14.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful writing but a poor mystery, 12 Dec 1998
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This review is from: Death in a Tenured Position (Kate Fansler Novels) (Mass Market Paperback)
In "Death in a Tenured Position," Amanda Cross (Carolyn G. Heilbrun) presents a literate mystery. Someone has left Harvard a million dollars to fund a chair in the English department for a female professor. At 1978 Harvard, the idea of women professors is still something to be viewed with, if not utter revulsion, at least significant apprehension. It is a time when "women's studies" is considered a fadish and unnecessary program. Harvard hires Janet Mandelbaum, who also disdains such things as "women's studies" and who aspires only to succeed based on merit. At the misogynistic Harvard, though, to succeed based on merit, one first must be a man. Janet thus finds herself ostracized. Soon, she finds herself drugged and left in the women's room in a compromising position.

Kate Fansler, a professor from New York, is asked to help out Janet, and Kate agrees, securing a position as a Fellow and beginning to consider the attempt to discredit Janet. Before long, though, Janet is found dead, and the police arrest someone Kate believes is innocent. Kate then turns to an unethical lawyer to help her friend while she investigates the death.

As a real-world mystery, "Death in a Tenured Position" is rather a disaster. The lawyer hired to defend the police's main suspect seems not to care at all about his client and goes to great lengths to please Kate while harming the client. What is more important, though, is that one of the characters had to have known the solution to the mystery long before the denouement and should have explained it. In short, the mystery doesn't make sense, and it doesn't work in any real sense. The mystery, however, does involve some wonderful use of English poetry and prose, complete with allusions that make it all seem obvious, albeit only after the fact.

But there is more to the novel than the mystery, and it is there that Cross succeeds admirably. In a field that is, nearly twenty years later, marked by increasing percentages of bad writing, "Death in a Tenured Position" is a remarkably well-written novel. Cross writes almost melodically, and her characters take on personalities merely by their word choice. To read a character correcting himself for saying "rather extreme," for example, is a pleasure. More to the point, though, the indictment of Harvard, which seems to be one of those all-too-frequent oxymora, the institute of higher learning mired in a pre-Elizabethan view of women, is unmitigated, unqualified, and unrepentant.

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