Annal:1990 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel
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Results of the Macavity Award in the year 1990. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1990 Macavity-Novel winner
- 1989 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 16.4
When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach “The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery” class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain’s hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking scandal in the school newspaper erupts in a suicide and two violent deaths, Professor Laurance enlists the talents of her new hubby, private eye Max Darling, and dons her thinking cap to probe intrigue and vengeance among Chastain’s faculty.
Max and Annie, with dubious help from three of their own…
