surprise, Clarkville explains that he did not know of Janet much before finding her in the men's restroom. He also says that he did not think that Janet should have come to Harvard. Immediately Kate becomes very leery of Clarkville and his confessions to Kate. Back at her office, Kate is contemplating all the different circumstances surrounding Janet's death. While she is working, she receives a phone call from Moon. Moon tells Kate he is in jail under the charges of murder for Janet's death, but assures Kate he is not responsible for what happened. Moon reveals that he did have possession of cyanide long ago, but tells Kate that it is locked away in a safe back in Minneapolis. Kate now has three suspects for Janet's death: Clarkville, Moon, and Luellen May (a fellow professor who found Janet passed out in the bathtub at a party). After a visit from Janet's brother and a tour of Janet's old apartment, Kate begins to put some ideas together about what really happened to Janet. Kate then visits with Clarkville once more to discuss his finding of Janet's body. In the meeting, Clarkville explains that the last time anyone had seen Janet alive was in the department meeting. During the meeting, Janet had become hysterical about an issue that caused a lot of tension in the room. Kate then gets Clarkville to admit to moving Janet's body to the men's room for her to be 'discovered'. Clarkville explains that he had originally found Janet in the chairman's office dead and decided to move her to a restroom (the men's room was the closest) and reported finding her there. Kate then is granted access to Janet's office at the university and finds a poem that she believes is the biggest clue to Janet's death. Kate finally proposes to Moon's lawyer, John Cunningham, that Janet's death was a suicide over a dinner at the Locke-Ober restaurant. Kate reveals that Janet stole the cyanide from Moon and after the amount of stress and tension Janet had endured at the university, she decided to end her own life. Main characters Kate Fansler Janet Mandelbaum Moon Mandelbaum Professor Clarkville John Cunningham Sylvia Themes One of the major themes in the novel is feminism and discrimination against women. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun herself was a professor in the English department at Columbia and she says that she experienced many