An intriguing case of higher education and lower morals: the
entertaining new Albert Campion mystery.
Suffolk, 1970. Albert Campion is back in Black Dudley, once the scene
of murder and mayhem but now home to the brand-new University of Suffolk
Coastal. Appointed to the role of the university's Visitor, Campion
finds he has a curiously vague remit, but his initial visit to the
concrete campus takes an unexpected turn when the body of charismatic
Chilean professor Pascual Perez-Catalan, a rising star and genius
scientist in the field of geochemistry, is fished out of the ornamental
lake.
It seems Pascual was unpopular among his fellow academics and lecturers,
his trail-blazing research taking up most of the university's new
computing capacity . . . and he was also a keen ladies man. Drawn into
another puzzling murder, Campion must negotiate internal politics,
seething jealousy and resentment, blackmail, betrayal and a phantom
trumpeter as he searches for a ruthless killer.