The Cruellest Month — Hazel Holt

THE CASE OF THE WICKED, LIBRARIAN

The death of spinster Gwen Richmond seemed excessively nasty even for a most unlikable, snoopy woman. Her fatal burial under a collapsed shelf of rare books had forced the Bodleian Library to close and cast a pall over the university's sweet April days. Still, Mrs. Malory was shocked that so many people were openly glad the librarian was dead. Widow Sheila Malory had come up to Oxford for a little scholarly research and a lot of happy reminiscing about her college years. Instead, her natural affinity for uncovering things suspicious and sinister soon cast a dark shadow over her own rosy colored memories ... and chilled her to the bone when she discovered that Gwen Richmond had not died by happenstance but because someone had a desperate motive to kill....