A Little Class on Murder Author:Carolyn G. Hart The fifth in a series featuring bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Annie Laurence Darling ( Death on Demand ), this is probably the best one in the Death on Demand series. — One of the things that Carolyn does well is combine a little bit of humor with a little bit of mystery. — Invited to teach a class on "Three Great Ladies of Mystery" at a loca... more »l college, Annie finds that university politics become grist for the school's paper. Student editor Brad Kelly's expose of a professor's embezzlement, and of the journalism department's apparent cover-up, lead to that instructor's suicide. Department chair R. T. Burke tracks the source for Kelly's story, but before he can disclose it, Burke is murdered and the newspaper office bombed, killing a secretary. Annie and her P.I. husband, Max, who had been hired to investigate the suicide, tolerate the cheerfully irritating help of Laurel, Max's mother; Miss Dora, a college trustee; and Henny, Annie's best customer, described by Annie as "a free spirit, an old bat, and a mystery nut." As an added bonus, several additional characters are also mystery nuts who frequently cite plots, characters and authors, so you get a lot of references to other mysteries that are good reads as well.« less