Strangled Prose Author:Joan Hess "I'm Claire Malloy. I run that cute little bookstore in the abandoned railroad depot - the Book Depot. I love Mildred - a.k.a. Azalea Twilight - so I agreed to let her use my store for the autograph party for her latest smutty romance, PROFESSOR of PASSION, even though I usually don't even stock her works. But as I say, Mildred WAS a friend . . ... more ».At the party, Maggie, our small college town's meanest feminist, burst in and read from the book, at which time I learned Mildred had used the circumstances of my late husband's death in the midst of her smutty trash. Mildred left in tears and shortly thereafter I marched after her thinking I could just kill her for her insensitive use of such a private matter. I didn't make it to her house, though. I returned to my party-filled little store. But someone else made it because Mildred ended up dead. And since she'd offended every faculty member at Faber College, there was no end of suspects . . . "« less