Caught Dead to Write: A Cat Latimer Mystery by Lynn Cahoon

Author:Lynn Cahoon [Cahoon, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2022-07-13T16:00:00+00:00

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By the time Cat arrived at the English department, the hallway of offices on the third floor for the non-tenured professors appeared deserted. She found Lancaster’s office with a note about open office hours being limited to an hour before and after each class he taught. Looking at his posted schedule, she’d have to come around five pm or wait until eight pm on Monday, Tuesday or Friday. Since she had a retreat in session, none of those days would work this week.

Maybe Shauna was right. The hearing was late next week. Talking to Lancaster might just make her mad. If he was against the retreat getting Covington money, she would just find another professor to do the second, editing-focused session. She had time before they changed up the program anyway.

She took the stairs back out of the building, but when she entered the staircase, she heard voices below her. She slowed her pace when she heard someone mention Harriet Barring’s name. Pausing mid floor, she tried to hear more of the conversation.

“Can you believe that guy got all of Harriet’s classes? He’ll be on track for tenure starting next semester, mark my words.”

Another voice added, “He’s such a suck up to the Dean. But I guess you have to be if you’re even going to be considered for promotions around here. Harriet wasn’t a supporter of other female professors, but at least she was one of the few females who actually achieved tenure here at Covington. Ten to one the next person to get tenure will be male. I’m not sure why I stay, except I’d have to start all over at a new university. I’m hoping this paper will get me some offers from other colleges. Then I can tell them what they can do with their backwoods college.”

The door opened and the speakers must have left through the second-floor hallway. From Cat’s experience, the new to Covington professors and the teachers’ assistants were housed on that floor. She hurried out of the building, wondering if Harriet’s death had anything to do with her job. It didn’t sound like she made waves, well, except for her rally against Cat’s retreat. She’d already achieved tenure, so there was no reason to kill her to get her out of the pool. Having her tenure spot would only help the next person in line. Cat wondered who that might be. Just because Lancaster had taken her classes didn’t mean he was up for the next tenure position. And his office location seemed to say he considered a tenure track hopefull. But she’d put a bug in her uncle’s ear for him to check it out, just in case.

She hurried home, hoping to carve out more time with the manuscript. The problem with writing during retreat weeks was she was constantly being interrupted. And once her flow had been cut off, sometimes she was too tired to jump back into the story line.

Sometimes she thought writing was like hooking a hose up to a part of your body and something pumped the story in while you transcribed it onto the page.

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