Review

     In this economic mystery, Harvard professor Henry Spearman and his wife Pidge are invited to Cambridge, England, to lecture and assist in the purchase of Balliol Croft, the home of Alfred Marshall, the father of microeconomics.  Within the first few days of their visit, their host is almost killed by a falling barbell, and their main competition for the house, an influential Cambridge professor, is killed in cold blood.

     Using economic analysis, Professor Spearman traced the murder to an amateur actress in a nearby village called Grantchester.  But when he arrives with the police to question her, she too has been murdered.  Can Spearman's economic theories help him determine the identities of those who aren't really as they seem?  Or will his revelation come too late?

Kelly L. Bryan
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