June Thomson — Rosemary for Remembrance
Corgi 1990 Paperback, 240pp. The atmosphere at the summer school for creative writing was one of peace, privilege, and intellectual superiority. But Bernard Livesey, poet, critic, and organiser of the school was having difficulties with his volatile and ill-matched staff. And when the students began to arrive his problems were compounded - for some of them were as explosive as the tutors. But no one had reckoned that the tension would erupt into murder - and a weird murder at that, for why was the corpse clutching a sprig of rosemary in his right hand?, (ISBN: 9780552134972). Good.