Carl Burns

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One Dead Dean Description

"I can just imagine the questions in history," Fox said. "Who was our first of it, maybe the second one's too hard. But you get the idea!"

"Yeah," Burns said. "I get the idea."

Hartley Gorman College, in Pecan City, Texas, is hardly a bastion of serious scholarship. The little Baptist school is more interested in shielding its students from the evil influence of The World, The Flesh, and The Devil than in turning out future Nobelists. But its staff, by and large, is worthy of a more demanding institution; they are victims of a glutted market in PhD's and they do the best they can. So it is they who are most upset at Dean Elmore's 'secret plan' to award credit hours for 'undirected study' by 'independent scholars' - in plain words, to turn the school into a diploma mill.

Which may be why Dean Elmore, shortly after unveiling his plan, is found bludgeoned to death at his desk. It is certainly why, at his funeral, there is not a wet eye in the house.

Or so observes Carl Burns, Hartley Gorman professor of English literature, through whose eyes we see both the crime and the larger picture of this wacky denominational Texas school.

Those listeners familiar with Bill Crider's books about Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin County, Texas, knows how wryly witty this author can be; here the humor is revved up a few notches, and the resulting account of Elmore's murder, Sheriff 'Boss' Napier's investigation, Bums's well-meant meddling, and the people and doings at Hartley Gorman are the exactly-right mix of realism and wackiness to make the book a delight as well as a suspenseful mystery.

©1988 Bill Crider (P)2012 David N. Wilson
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  • Livre 1

    • A Carl Burns Mystery, Book 1
    • Auteur(s): Bill Crider
    • Narrateur(s): Dean Sluyter
    • Durée: 6 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-09-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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  • Livre 2

    • Carl Burns, Book 2
    • Auteur(s): Bill Crider
    • Narrateur(s): James Foster
    • Durée: 5 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-07-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation

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