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When two of the residents at a county college's new single-parent dormitory die of poisoning, professor and antique print dealer Maggie Summer finds a host of suspects in a wealthy college benefactor and her husband, a professor hired for political reasons, and the college's reputation-driven president. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Antique print dealer Maggie Summer is teaching a college course on "Myths in American Culture," using prints by Currier & Ives and other nineteenth century artists to illustrate her points. As a faculty advisor, she's also dealing with the problems of students who are single parents: problems that turn dangerous when a young mother is poisoned, and events twist Maggie's own thoughts about motherhood. She suspects a sinister connection between the past and the present, and her prints could provide valuable clues. But some secrets are too hard to see -- even for an expert like Maggie -- and some crimes hit too close to home...
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