Sample Book Chapters

Death Comes for the Provost Death Comes For The Provost is an irreverent, humorously satirical look at crime on the campus of the fictional Thornton University. Thornton is located in the equally fictitious city of Harrison, state unspecified. Thornton is a Ph.D.-granting institution run by the fictitious Order of The Sons of Bedric. The protagonist is an academic chemist, Montego O'Higgins. A female faculty member of the Anthropology Department ably assists him.

Nex Pro Bono

In Nex Pro Bono, a minor character from the first book, Bergen Sawyer, moves up to become a major player. He is a faculty member in Sociology at Thornton and he has a most unusual avocation. His adversary is a recent addition to the ranks of the Thornton administration, Wilson Lustig. It is soon clear that the campus is not big enough for the two to coexist.

A third book, tentatively entitled Occasions of Syn is in preparation.





James A Walsh James A. Walsh is a retired academic who has become an author-in-training. His genre is crime fiction. He prefers to think of his works as Entertainments rather than Novels. His first effort produced "Death Comes For The Provost". His second was "Nex Pro Bono". Links are provided to sample chapters of each. Provost is in press. Nex has been completed and revised once. It is now in the hands of critics/reviewers. Publication is expected in late 2009. The author has registered two pseudonyms, Braxton Bradford Ruff and Lewis Kendall Kern.
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