Murder at the Shrine:: An Ivory Tower Mystery

By: David Garrett Izzo

Category: literary mystery/thriller in and out of academia combining suspense and Wonder Boys wry humor----- Themes Set in a major Philadelphia university, the mystery advances along five lines: The first is the petty academic intrigue surrounding the bitter conflict of professors and an older PhD student that has published more than they have. The envy/jealousy quotient is high, nasty, vindictive and cruel. This line is told with both satirical and sarcastic humor but an unerring reality as it is based on the real-life experiences of the author who lived this out. The second line of mystery is academic intellectual theft by two married professors that have gained their reputations by the husband stealing a theory of physics that is used by the military for a top-secret weapons project and the wife stealing a manuscript of poems. This duo has gone to extreme measures to attain the work and keep the secret of their theft hidden. Murder is not above their methods. The third line of mystery is the plan of revenge against these married thieves by relatives of their victims. Being sexually dominated by the couple is a high price paid by one of the relatives, a beautiful young woman. The fourth line involves professors that are working with foreign terrorists and want to give them the plans and the prototype for the secret weapon. These professors support a group led by perverse multi millionaire Nathan Twine that sees the World War II pro-fascist American poet Ezra Pound as their inspiration. Pound was anti Semitic and this group is anti-Israel. In this group is a U.S. Senator who served in Gulf War I and came to his office through a record of heroism that is not true. He is aligned with a Lebanese man who knows the truth and holds this hammer over the politician. The last line is the undercover efforts of an FBI special unit and the Israeli secret police to uncover the plot and prevent mass murder.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520765851
• ISBN13: 9781520765853
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"