Echoing Heilbrun's personal views, she has little sentimental attachment to children, enjoys smoking, drinking, and fatty food, and in later books such as Sweet Death, Kind Death, meditates on the nature of middle age and on the liberating nature of death. Kate Fansler is vacationing in the sweet and. Midway through the series, she married her partner, district attorney Reed Amhearst, but as she tells another character in A Trap For Fools, she 'neither uses his name nor wears his ring'. Discussion of themes and motifs in Amanda Cross In the Last Analysis. If by some cruel oversight you havent discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you.

Her work is accomplished through conversation with the people involved, rather than through the physically adventurous antics preferred by other fictional detectives. In the books, she is called upon to solve mysteries set in an academic context, usually involving the murder of a professor or student. Like Heilbrun, Fansler was a literature professor at a prestigious New York university. Seven weeks later, the girl is stabbed to death on Emanuels couch-with incriminating fingerprints on.

Kate Fansler is the main character in a series of fourteen mystery novels written by Carolyn Gold Heilbrun from 1964-2002, under the pseudonym Amanda Cross. When beautiful Janet Harrison asks English professor Kate Fansler to recommend a Manhattan psychoanalyst, Kate immediately sends the girl to her dear friend and former lover, Dr.

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