Description

When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is asked to show "The Three Great Girls of the Mystery" course at Chastain Community School, the sometime sleuth finds that isn't purely educational in Chastainis hallowed halls of learning. And whenever a shocking scandal within the school paper erupts in a destruction and two violent fatalities, Teacher Laurance enlists the skills of her new husband, private-eye Max Favorite, and sports her thinking hat to probe interest and payback among Chastain's faculty.A Harmful ThingMax and Annie, with questionable aid from three of the own excellent girls of the secret -- Annie's pixilated mom-in-law, a batty nearby dowager, and a Christie offense lover -- discover that just about everybody in the school had means, motive, and use of the killing weapons. In the privately boozing teacher of marketing to the muscle-bound university cad who barters passing levels to get a small extracurricular activity, anybody about the school is just a feasible monster -- waiting to attack again!