Harvard Has a Homicide

Few people have had occasion to murder a Harvard professor—and yet there was no doubt that Professor Singer of the Fine Arts department had been murdered. He was found dead in his study at Hallowell House by “Jupiter” Jones, an eccentric graduate student who arrived for a tutorial conference. Instead of discussing Fine Arts, “Jupiter” faced the police.The very first clues appeared to have the makings of two juicy faculty scandals and the Cambridge detective working on the case chose to go slowly. Not so “Jupiter,” who, taking advantage of his familiarity with Singer and his sure knowledge of Harvard, began to piece together the astonishing story. But, like so many amateur detectives, “Jupiter” Jones overlooked a few vital facts.