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Bizarre murders are happening and they all seem connected to Eastern Friends School in Pennsylvania. Lt. Frank DiSalvo is assigned to the cases and recruits Maxwell Hunter, an English teacher, to help him out. Hunter in turn recruits his girl friend Patricia and one of his students. 
 
The deaths are happening to parents of some of Hunter’s students or ex-students. Clues are left at every death scene but the clues are not easy to decipher. 
 
Eventually Maxwell Hunter begins to unravel the tangled pieces of the puzzle and the book is brought to an exciting and surprising conclusion. Little did Maxwell Hunter know that the lessons he taught his students would eventually be used as a diagram for murder. Everyone is a suspect but will DiSalvo and his crew find the real murderer in time? Read A Lesson In Murder and find out.

Reviewed By Patricia Reid

'George Wheeler sat in the driver's seat, looking as lifeless as the car in which he was sitting. On the seat next to him, was a stuffed animal which looked like Walt Disney's Pluto. A large, flat, hardback book lay open in his lap. Wheeler's usual black horn-rimmed glasses had been replaced with large, bright yellow-framed spectacles. Barnum again peered in the window quickly. Wheeler's tan, healthy-looking face had been smeared with what appeared to be charcoal ashes.'

George Wheeler usually met with his advertising agent at 6:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for their jogs in the park. During this time, Wheeler who was in the pharmaceutical business would pitch ideas to Barnum as they ran. But as Barnum soon found out, Wheeler had performed his last job and pitched his last idea. Someone had murdered him.

Maxwell Hunter is an English teacher for Eastern Friends School in Pennsylvania. Eastern Friends School (EFS) was originally a private school for the wealthy but had started adding a few students, through grants, that were exceptionally intelligent. Hunter has a passion for mystery solving and is a stickler for details. That and Hunter's familiarity with the people involved prompted Lt. Frank DiSalvo to ask Hunter for his help in solving the murder of George Wheeler. But, as it turns out, Wheeler wasn't the only one to be murdered and each murder is in some way connected with the school.

As I read A Lesson in Murder I found myself second guessing my own ideas as to who the killer was. And I have to say that I was surprised with the ending. I had several suspects in mind but never really narrowed it down to one. I really enjoyed reading A Lesson in Murder and recommend it to anyone who would like a quick read mystery.

Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat