C.A.T. Caper - Hardcover

Logan, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802757626 ISBN 13: 9780802757623

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1990

Synopsis

Teacher Dodge Hackman investigates when Jason Armbruster, a brilliant but disturbed high-school student, is accused of the murder of Marilyn Millege, a radical feminist professor with numerous enemies

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From Publishers Weekly:

It's bad enough that a tribe of high school English teachers, convened at the Beasley Center to evaluate their students' C.A.T. (Collegiate Aptitude Test) essays, must be subjected to the murder of the English language by thousands of teenagers--but when one of their own number, albeit not a very popular figure, is himself murdered, things take a more ominous turn. And when it is revealed that the victim has done the unspeakable--breached the sacrosanct security of Beasley by sending a few "poison postcards" to the authors of the more execrable essays--the very foundation of the Center and the C.A.T. seems to rock. In order to safeguard tradition, Prescott Beasley asks teacher Dodge Hackett to assist the police effort. Hackett agrees, mainly to expiate the guilt he feels over the suicide of a former student, whose face he sees superimposed on that of the case's prime suspect, high school senior Jason Armbruster, a recipient of the victim's hate mail. A large cast of characters and changing point of view hinder Logan's ( Deathhampton Summer ) mystery; the secrets of the central characters might have made more compelling reading than the throes of a not-so-interesting English teacher. Still, her plot is an inherently ticklish one.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Hundreds of English teachers gather at the Beasley Center near Boston to evaluate results of the year's College Aptitude Test, so affable academic humor reigns supreme until the sudden death of a more-or-less universally despised feminist intrudes. While police search for a 17-year-old religious fanatic who just took the test, Dodge Hackett, friend of ultra-rich Prescott Beasley and discoverer of the murdered woman's body, attempts to prove the teenager's innocence. Multiple personal conflicts add a little spice, but nothing heavy or deep. Light, breezy fare from the author of Deathampton Summer ( LJ 4/1/88).
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0802757626
• ISBN 13: 9780802757623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236