Dane: Murder Cum Laude

Detective Sergeant Cass Harty must investigate a murder on a small university campus. A student is found shot to death, but is only the first victim. Harty finds the clock ticking as the bodies pile up.

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First published in 1935.

Review

‘We don’t know who this Joel Dane is, but he certainly knows his action, his plots and his police methods. Looking back over the tale, it’s a kind of blending of Dashiell Hammett, Tiffany Thayer and Mr. Dane’s own original ways. . . . It is surely one of the most gripping and unusual mystery novels to appear this year.’ (Camden, NJ, Morning Post, 1935)