Dishing The Dirt

When six professors are drugged at a dinner and then humiliated by being smeared with unpleasant substances Sergeant MacRae is baffled but Chief Inspector Forsyth forsees a related incident which turns out to be the murder of a lecturer notorious for seducing local wives and female undergraduates. When a campus wife who was having an affair with the lecturer is also murdered on a lonely beach at the time that her husband is holding a departmental party everyone is at sea except Forsyth who comes up with a solution to all the incidents by the application of some brilliant logical deductions.