A Bond with Death: A Professor Sally Good Mystery
A Bond with Death: A Professor Sally Good Mystery (Professor Sally Good Mystery) Bill Crider,
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
ISBN: 0312322968
DDC: 813.54
Edition: Hardcover; 2004-11-03
Summary:
Sally's husband has been dead for eight years; his remote ancestor,
the witch Sarah Good, died on the scaffold in Salem more than four
hundred years ago. Yet the president of Sally's college is afraid the
story will reflect on the institution. Sally is annoyed. Sarah Good
wasn't her ancestor; she was the forbear of Sally's dead husband.
That the president of a college should be concerned that one of his
faculty might be thought the descendant of a woman who was hanged as
a witch four hundred years ago seems ludicrous to her. In one way,
the president has reason to be concerned. Their town is in a very
conservative part of Texas---a considerable number of citizens are
trying to get the Harry Potter books removed from the library. Now a
bond issue for the college is coming up, and nothing is more
important to the president than to get it approved.Returning to her
office, Sally learns from her boyfriend that "the Garden Gnome" has
been murdered. The Garden Gnome (so-called because he looks like one)
was consistently honored by the students, who gave him the worst
evaluations any faculty member had ever received, and Sally was
eventually effective in securing his departure. Nor does it help her
that he was one of the staunchest opponents of the bond issue. With
the aid of the Internet, most of the local population have convinced
themselves that Mrs. Sally Good and "Witch" Sarah Good are
practically one and the same---maybe Sally is a reincarnation of
"her" ancestor. And you know what witches can do. With the help of
her lover, Jack, and some complications thrown up by a covey of
wiccans ("No, no, it's a religion. We are not witches"), Sally may
avoid being hanged, but it certainly looks like she is in real
trouble.
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