This is a book from a collected Women’s Crime Novels of the 1940s that the Library of America put out a few years ago. I’ve read the others in the collective where Laura and In a Lonely Place are the standouts. I have to say that this one is a marked step down in quality from the other two, but does offer an interesting look into a familiar setting. There’s a murder in the English department at an all-women’s college in the Northeast United States. […]