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"I can consider the questions in history," Fox said. "Who was our to begin it, maybe the next one's too hard. But you get the idea!" "Yeah," Burns up said. "I get the idea." Hartley Gorman University, in Pecan City, Texas, is scarcely a bastion of serious scholarship or grant. The tiny Baptist school is more interested in shielding its students from the wicked affect of The World, The Flesh, as well as the Devil than in turning out future Nobelists. But its staff, more often than not, is worth a more strenuous institution; they are simply victims of the glutted market in PhD's and they do the best they can. So that it is they who are most annoyed at Dean Elmore's 'magic formula plan' to award credit time for 'undirected study' by '3rd party scholars' - in plain words, to carefully turn the institution into a diploma mill. Which might be why Dean Elmore, shortly after unveiling his plan, is found bludgeoned to loss of life at his desk. It is certainly why, at his funeral, there is not a wet eye in the house. Roughly observes Carl Burns up, Hartley Gorman professor of English literature, through whose sight we see both the crime and the bigger picture of this wacky denominational Texas school. Those listeners familiar with Bill Crider's literature about Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin Region, Texas, knows how wryly witty this writer can be; here the humor is revved up a few notches, and the ensuing bank account of Elmore's murder, Sheriff 'Boss' Napier's investigation, Bums's well-meant meddling, and the folks and doings at Hartley Gorman are the exactly-right mixture of realism and wackiness to help make the book a pleasure as well as a suspenseful mystery.
