Elf Trap

The novel 'Elf Trap' is a mystery novel set in a university community. Theron Tademus, A.A.S., F.E.S., D.S., et cetera, occupied the chair of biology in a not-unfamed university. He was the author of a treatise on cytology, since widely used as a textbook, and of several important brochures on the more obscure infusoria. Then, at the height of his career, he died. Having entered his class-room with intent to deliver the first lecture of the fall term, he walked to his desk, laid down a small, red note-book, turned, opened his mouth, went ghastly white and subsided. As the shock of his death spreads around, questions emerge on the reason for it, and about the mystery of his earlier disappearance for a week whilst on holiday …