Product Description
For a century, wealthy New York girls have been trained for the rigors of upper class life at the Theban, an exclusive private school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Kate Fansler is lured back to her alma mater to teach a seminar on Antigone. But a hostile note addressed to Kate, the uniform mistrustfulness of her six, bright students, and the Dobermans that patrol the building at night suggest trouble on the spot. As Kate leads her class through the inexorable tragic unfolding of Antigone, a parallel nightmare envelops the school and everyone connected with it...

From the Inside Flap
For a century, wealthy New York girls have been trained for the rigors of upper class life at the Theban, an exclusive private school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Kate Fansler is lured back to her alma mater to teach a seminar on Antigone. But a hostile note addressed to Kate, the uniform mistrustfulness of her six, bright students, and the Dobermans that patrol the building at night suggest trouble on the spot. As Kate leads her class through the inexorable tragic unfolding of Antigone, a parallel nightmare envelops the school and everyone connected with it...

About the Author
Amanda Cross is the pseudonymous author of the bestselling Kate Fansler mysteries. As Carolyn G. Heilbrun, she is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Columbia University. She has served as president of the Modern Language Association as well as vice president of the Authors Guild. Dr. Heilbrun is also the author of Writing a Woman’s Life, Hamlet’s Mother and Other Women, The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem, and The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty.

191 pages

I don't know about Antigone else than the name, so this story is might be boring. But somehow it isn't boring at all. I rather liked the book.

This is my book #71 in the Reduce Mount TBR 2017 -challence by Dove-i-libri.

A wishlist book to a new reader
Happy reading!

Thank you very much for this wishlist book!:)

Once again a very enjoyable Kate Fansler novel! Not much of a mystery but I still like these stories because they are so well written.

This book is on its way to the next reader. Happy reading!

I received this on Wednesday, but this was my first chance to get to the internet cafe. In the intervening days I jumped in and read it. I really like these Kate Fansler books, not only the mystery element but her relationships and also her observations on how women are treated / behave.
Thanks so much for sending this one on to me Soozreader as you don't see them around very often. :-)

Passed on to Rainbow3 at the Old Gang Book Festival meet up. Happy reading!

At last a ‘caught’ journal entry, picked up on Sunday 12 August at a BookCrossing MeetUp. Thanks Bookfrogster for thinking of me for this Amanda Cross novel.

You will not be surprised to know I am already thinking of a reader, based in Somerset, I can pass the two Crosses I now have onto. Oh…that sounds a bit biblical LOL.

Apologies for the late entry. I received this as part of the advent of books in December 2019 and read it in February 2020, so this did not stay on tbr for long at all.

I am told that this is one of two Amanda Cross books (both from this Kate Fansler series) that I have - so I hope I find the other one soon - but this was the earlier of the books and made a good introduction to the character. The writing is a very literary style and displays a beautiful use of the language and for anyone doing English Lit this would make a great intro to the Greek Antigone as well! Interesting window into the lifestyle of a set of people I have never come across and always think of as stereotypical New York upper class characters, is this really how they were? A good melding of the Greek play and the storyline make for an intriguing plot with low key detection and, thankfully, no graphic violence.
I enjoyed this book and will read more from this author if and when I come across them.

This has been on a pile of books waiting to go out in a bookbox and I intend that it will do just that, so there are plans afoot for this little book.

Been awaiting release of bookbox delayed by Covid19 restrictions.
Now on its way out into the wide world!

Happy travels little book.

Chosen from the already bookcrossed bookbox