New York: Delacorte, (1995). First edition - Second mystery featuring professor and amateur sleuth Beth Austin, who has left Midwestern's icy February campus for a luxurious vacation at the Royal Aloha hotel in Hawaii, to prepare a seminar on George Eliot's Middlemarch, but finds herself once again caught up in murder. A dress designer falls to her death in the hotel lobby. A body is found on the hotel's jogging trail. 243 pp.