"When Doctor Tudor Cornwall, Reader in Criminal Studies at the University of Wessex, arrives for a semester as Visiting Fellow at his old friend's university down under, he is met with a nasty surprise. Indeed, the surprises get nastier as the plot unravels. An exotic cast of suspicious academics includes an ecologically-correct axeman, a professor of wine and the world's leading authority on an esoteric form of Austrailian hedgehog. Then there is the student body to consider too ..."--Page 4 of cover.