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In the Last Analysis
In the Last Analysis | Amanda Cross
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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. Emanuel Bauer. Seven weeks later, the girl is stabbed to death on Emanuel's couch--with incriminating fingerprints on the murder weapon. To Kate, the idea of her brilliant friend killing anyone is preposterous, but proving it seems an impossible task. For Janet had no friends, no lover, no family. Why, then, should someone feel compelled to kill her? Kate's analytic techniques leave no stone unturned--not even the one under which a venomous killer once again lies coiled and ready to strike. . . . From the Paperback edition.
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Octoberwoman
In the Last Analysis | Amanda Cross
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I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!) Feel free to join in!

#ABookADay2023

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LRSmith
In the Last Analysis | Amanda Cross

“Perhaps we ought to try the truth. Not that I claim any inherent value for it, God forbid; but it has, among our various techniques, the appeal of novelty.“

Damn! This woman could write a quotable quote.

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LRSmith
In the Last Analysis | Amanda Cross

“What I need is a solution. Keep quiet a minute, and let me think. While it‘s not a process of which I expect spectacular results, it‘s the only form of activity that occurs to me at the moment.”

Why, oh why am I only discovering Amanda Cross now?! Any of you out there who are academics or lovers of Peter Wimsey and are looking for a new read—if you haven't read Amanda Cross, I highly recommend her.

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writerlibrarian
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This is the opening novel with Kate Fansler as the intellectual academic reluctant detective. We find all the ingredients in the first book that made the series interesting and different: intellectual puzzles, the mystery set in a somewhat ivory tower space, here, a psychoanalyst's office and home. You get literary discussions and mentions (Lord Peter *smile*), psychoanalytic debates about Freud, and NYC. #NYCfiction