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Headmaster's Wife Paperback - 2006

by Jane Haddam

At the Windsor School, an exclusive prep school in Connecticut, a student is found hanged in the cellar after rumors of an affair with the headmaster's wife. Martin's Press.


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"In the tradition of P.D. James, Jane Haddam's novels combine compelling story lines with a keen-eyed, complex sense of the character's psychology and sharp, evocative sense of place "

THE HEADMASTER'S WIFE
Windsor Academy ranks as one of the best New England prep schools money can buy. From its Gothic arches to its ethnic diversity, it looks picture perfect...as long as nobody notices that the headmaster's wife has a student lover and drugs are as available as candy. And when freshman Mark DeAvecca looks out a faux medieval window and sees a body across the campus, he wonders if he's hallucinating especially when no corpse is found. Since everyone thinks that Mark is a druggie, they all ignore him until he returns to his dorm room to discover his roommate dead, hanged by the neck from the ceiling.

Desperate, Mark calls his mother's friend Gregor Demarkian, former FBI agent and the one person Mark knows will listen. Demarkian is world-weary and ready to retire from his investigative career, yet he can't turn down a plea from a scared kid. And it doesn't take long before Gregor knows something is very wrong at Windsor Academy...something like manipulation, dirty tricks, and murder.

"Compelling...campus politics and intrigue intermingle with sex, suicide and possibly murder in Haddam's searing 20th Gregor Demarkian mystery."
"Publishers Weekly "starred review

"Intelligently written masterful."
--"Indianapolis"" Star""

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  • Title Headmaster's Wife
  • Author Jane Haddam
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL
  • Date 2006-02-07
  • ISBN 9781250100306 / 1250100305
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5 x 1.03 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 2.62 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
    • Locality: Boston-Worcester, Mass.
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

JANE HADDAM is the author of many previous novels, most featuring Gregor Demarkian, as well as numerous articles and stories published widely. Her novels have been finalists for both the Edgar and Anthony Awards. She lives with her family in Litchfield Country, Connecticut.
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