Book description
When beautiful Janet Harrison asks English professor Kate Fansler to recommend a Manhattan psychoanalyst, Kate immediately sends the girl to her dear friend and former lover, Dr. Emanuel Bauer. Seven weeks later, the girl is stabbed to death on Emanuel's couch--with incriminating fingerprints on the murder weapon. To Kate, the…
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1 author picked In the Last Analysis as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This great series focused on Professor Kate Fansler and the mysteries emerging from her academic world.
The first book was written in the sixties, but the series spanned many years and was set in late 20th-century New York. I read them as a teen and young woman in the eighties and nineties, but I think the series holds up well even today, and it’s rather nostalgic to read about a world before the Internet.
From Julia's list on compelling mysteries set in a school or academic setting.
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