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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1964
  • Latest Book:
    October 2002
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Full Series List in Order

Kate Fansler

1 - In the Last Analysis (1964)
2 - The James Joyce Murder (1967)
3 - Poetic Justice (1970)
4 - The Theban Mysteries (1971)
5 - Question of Max (1976)
6 - Death in a Tenured Position (1981)
7 - Sweet Death, Kind Death (1984)
8 - No Word from Winifred (Jun-1986)
9 - A Trap for Fools (Apr-1989)
10 - The Players Come Again (Oct-1990)
11 - An Imperfect Spy (Jan-1995)
12 - The Puzzled Heart (Jan-1998)
13 - Honest Doubt (Nov-2000)
14 - The Edge of Doom (Oct-2002)

Book List in Order: 18 titles



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    When beautiful Janet Harrison asks English professor Kate Fansler to recommend a Manhattan psychoanalyst, Kate immediately sends the girl to her dear friend and former lover, Dr. Emanuel Bauer. Seven weeks later, the girl is stabbed to death on Emanu...



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    "If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you."
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
    Kate Fansler is vacationing in the sweet and harmless Berkshires, sorting through the letters of H...



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    Kate Fansler is a willowy beauty who teaches Victorian literature and has a passion for the poems of W. H. Auden--poems that take on new meaning when death brings mystery to a great New York university. Reed Amhearst, of the D.A:s office, is her fian...



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    Beautiful and brilliant Kate Fansler has returned to the Theban--her alma mater and New York's most exclusive girls' school -- to teach a seminar on Antigone. The bold and defiant words of Antigone have a surprising relevance for these sophisticated ...



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    When Max--well-bred, utterly snobbish Max asks Kate Fansler to accompany him (to drive him, yet) to the rocky coast of Maine, where the famous author Cecily Hutchins lived until her recent death, Kc: reluctantly agrees. Max is literary executor and w...



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    It's only because Janet Mandelbaum is no feminist that the stuffy old boys of Harvard agree to make her the first woman professor in the English department. But they're not happy about it. At a sedate and proper afternoon tea, someone slips a m...



  • "If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you."
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
    Kate Fansler is vacationing in the sweet and harmless Berkshires, sorting through the letters of H...



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    A renowned historian and successful novelist, the eccentric Patrice Umphelby was an object both of great admiration and utter disdain--until her death by drowning in the campus lake. The verdict is suicide. Growing suspicious, the college presiden...



  • At a stuffy law firm party given by her stuffy brother, Professor Kate Fansler hears of an intriguing mystery. It seems that a woman named Winifred is missing. The honorary niece of the renowned British novelist Charlotte Stanton, Winifred had bee...






  • A collection of mystery stories culled from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine features stories by Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, Michael Innes, and others....



  • When the body of Canfield Adams, a professor of Middle Eastern culture, is found on the pavement seven stories below his open office window, the police see no evidence of foul play. But university officials know that Adams was not one to have jumped ...



  • A scarcely believable rumor climbing the literary grapevine hints that Emmanuel Foxx's great modernist novel, Ariadne, whose theme is a woman's emotional life, may actually have been written by his wife, Gabrielle. When a New York publishing house in...



  • While guest-teaching a semester at Schuyler Law School, Kate Fansler gets to know an extraordinary secretary named Harriet, who patterns her life after John le Carre's character George Smiley. Harriet reveals that Schuyler has some serious skeletons ...



  • Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...



  • Amanda Cross is master of the American literary whodunit. In her delicately menacing short fiction, assembled here in one volume, dangerous impulses seize the most unlikely individuals, and everyday existence is fast eclipsed by the bizarre. Among th...



  • Kate Fansler's husband, Reed, has been kidnapped--and will be killed unless Kate obeys the carefully delineated directives of a ransom note. Tormented by her own puzzled heart, Kate seeks solace and wise counsel from friends both old and new. But who...



  • Professor Charles Haycock is dead from a hearty dose of his own heart medication. The mystery is not why Haycock was murdered--very few could stomach the woman-hating prof--but who did the deed. Estelle "Woody" Woodhaven, a private investigator hired...



  • Rich and witty, the literary whodunits by Amanda Cross are a delight for readers who like their mysteries smart and suspenseful. Now comes the highly anticipated sequel to her Kate Fansler novel, Honest Doubt, which the Providence Journal called “o...


Award-Winning Books by Amanda Cross

Death in a Tenured Position
1981 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Amanda Cross has published 18 books.

Amanda Cross does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Edge of Doom, was published in October 2002.

The first book by Amanda Cross, In the Last Analysis, was published in January 1964.

Yes. Amanda Cross has 1 series.