It's only because Janet Mandelbaum is no feminist that the stuffy old boys of Harvard agree to make her the first female professor in the English department.

But they're not happy about it.

At a sedate and proper afternoon tea, someone slips a mickey into Janet's Campari and she's found by the police in a most compromising position—drunk on the floor in the ladies' room.

That's when sophisticated sleuth Kate Fansler shows up to help her old friend figure out who's after her. But before she does, Janet is found dead—this time in the men's room...