""I could kill Professor Fenderby'. Dulcie Schwartz has reason to regret those words when she discovers Professor Fenderby's battered body in his office -- and finds herself the prime suspect in the ensuing murder investigation. Although she had good reason to dislike the late professor, who had been calling her scholarship into question, Dulcie would never go so far as to murder him. But someone seems to be deliberately putting her in the frame or...