The Croesus Club

What's this? Crap and corruption at the University of Toronto? Ah but that was a generation ago. Surely we can bask in the belief that nothing like the events reported here might recur today or in the future or at other universities? Whether or not they did happen in Toronto as they did so long ago? </P><P>But this story is not just a recounting of academic perfidy of gentlemanly agreements trashed of student welfare thrown to the winds by delusional professors. It follows as well the attempts of Kelly Collins Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics as he tries to surface from the devastating loss of his young wife and unborn child some years before. These attempts lead him to the purchase of a house its rental to a variety of students and friends and the establishment of an investment club-<I>The Croesus Club</I>. All of these initiatives take on lives of their own when he goes on sabbatical to the antipodes. He is forced by inexplicable charges of his own moral turpitude to make an early return. A mind-boggling romp through what the house has become explains Kelly's predicament then culminates in a startling resolution of all. </P>