Honest Doubt (2009)
Honest Doubt
“Some years ago Clifton College had stopped offering course catalogs in all departments. Too expensive, Octavia had learned, and likely to be inaccurate by the time the actual semester rolled around. It was time to get the faculty straight in my mind, and the best way to do that was to win the confidence of (so I’d been told) the only person in any academic department who knows what is actually going on—as opposed to what is debated: the department’s executive secretary. These women, and they ar...e almost always women, have faculty status and are, together with their administrative colleagues, what keeps any academic institution from sudden collapse. The titular men above them in the hierarchy come and go and spend most of their time in committees, or raising funds, or in trying to get their agendas ratified by other men in power. The women do not run the college—more’s the pity—but they keep it running. I’d learned that much from Claire Wiseman.I spent the morning finishing up another inquiry, which had resolved itself faster than I had anticipated because the thief in question turned out to be a close relative of my client.MoreLess
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