Margaret Doody is a professor of literature at the University of Notre Dame. She is also the author of The True Story of the Novel.
Why did no one think of this before? * The Times * Wit in a first novel is rare enough, and when allied to the skilful unravelling of a murder story set in Ancient Athens it makes us doubly grateful for Aritstotle Detective * Daily Telegraph * Eminently enjoyable * Colin Dexter *