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In the Last Analysis (Kate Fansler, Bk 1)
In the Last Analysis - Kate Fansler, Bk 1
Author: Amanda Cross
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 Emanuel's couch -- with incriminating fingerprints on the murder weapon. To Kate, the idea of her ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780380583218
ISBN-10: 0380583216
Publication Date: 12/1985
Pages: 176
Edition: 3rd THUS
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Publisher: Avon
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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sealady avatar reviewed In the Last Analysis (Kate Fansler, Bk 1) on + 657 more book reviews
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First in series. From the back cover: A beautiful young student needed help and turned to Kate Fansler, her young, witty professor of literature. Without hesitation, Kate recommended her dear friend and former lover, top notch psychoanalyst Emmanuel Bauer. Who could have imagined the student would end up on Dr. Bauer's couch with a knife in her lovely body? Kate was sure Emmanuel was innocent, but without an alibi, the doctor was a chief suspect...and so was his old friend Kate!
ecgrayb avatar reviewed In the Last Analysis (Kate Fansler, Bk 1) on
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The Kate Fansler mysteries are very unusual--cerebral and academic and also funny. This is a good example. They are well worth reading if you are a mystery fan looking for a different experience.
reviewed In the Last Analysis (Kate Fansler, Bk 1) on + 11 more book reviews
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If you enjoy intelligent, literate, witty mysteries with an academic twist then you will enjoy this series. There's little action but lots of talk. Kate Fansler is, at this stage in the series, a single professor of English Literature at a prestigious university in NYC with a penchant for becoming involved in murder investigations. She has an interesting Assistant District Attorney friend, Reed, who provides her with access to case material and the status of the investigation. The series reminds me somewhat of what Lord Peter Whimsey and Harriet Vane might have become if they had lived in a later era. This novel was written in 1964, so some of it is a bit dated, but the characters remain compelling and the mystery, if not of the thrills and chills variety, provides the usual unexpected twist. It is, in many way, a cozy, and is a rather gentle, tame story, as murders go, but the wit and intelligence with which this story is imbued make it all worthwhile.
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woot avatar reviewed In the Last Analysis (Kate Fansler, Bk 1) on + 6 more book reviews
All of the mysteries by Amanda Cross that I have read have been interesting, cerebral, and clever. This book has good character development, intricate detail, and a surprise ending.
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Murder mystery, university whodunnit.


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