The corpse is grotesque, an obese woman dressed for graduation, her face contorted by the poison she swallowed. The trail to her murder began months earlier with the search for a new president of the university. History professor Jerry Walsh and law professor Lilith Furman, pursuing that search, work in an environment charged by the inner secrets of the leading candidates-one of them involved in an illicit love affair, another the creature of perverse sexual desires, still another in love with a rival’s wife. Will the two professors be able to break the secret computer code to reveal crucial clues to the crimes? Ambition, jealousy and greed; theft, blackmail and murder-you’ll find them all in An Old Blue Corpse: A New Haven Mystery, along with a behind-the-scenes portrait of university politics.