THE WIDENING STAIN

Everyone, it seems, is suddenly very interested in manuscript B 58, the library’s copy of Hilarius’ miracle play Filius Getronis. Professor Belknap (history) plans to publish it with the cooperation of professor Hyett (classics) and professor Francis Parry (dramatics). And now assistant professor Angelo Casti (romance languages) wants to borrow it for some investigations he proposes in his phonetics laboratory. Absolutely not, says Chief Cataloguer Gilda Gorham, believing that now everything has settled down. Her cozy assumption is promptly exploded by the death of assistant professor Lucie Coindreau, a rival of Casti’s for a coveted tenure line, who leaves a reception at President Temple’s house, lets herself into the Wilmerding Collections, and plunges from a gallery to the floor below. As if to prove that her demise is no accident, it’s followed by Hyett’s strangling in the Wilmerding Collections. Gilda must sort through a wide range of decorous secrets her colleagues are hiding—an indebtedness to a predatory lender, a taste for erotica, an affair with Lucie Coindreau, a link to the earlier theft of a valuable manuscript—to identify the duly pedantic killer.

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