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MURDER 101 DOWNLOAD (pdf) SYNOPSIS Dr. Jonathan Maxwell, absentminded but brilliant criminology professor, has taken a younger colleague, Stuart Evans, under his wing. He’s trying to help Evans gain tenure at the university. Maxwell is one of three people on the committee that will have final say on the young professor’s academic future. The other committee members are Archer Coe, an arrogant English professor and world-renowned novelist and Camille Brewster, the interim dean. Maxwell voices his support, but Coe vehemently disagrees. Camille is reluctant to commit before the official vote. Public sentiment supports Evans (even Hilda Lake, a subordinate in Coe’s department, likes him), but his chances are slim. Archer Coe is a horrible human being. Not only does he treat colleagues and students like dirt, but he’s also having an affair with one student, Danya Rosovitch. When his wife Muriel catches them in his office, she’s furious. Later, Valentin Rosovitch angrily confronts the professor about defiling his “innocent” daughter. The next day, Stuart Evans approaches Coe and their conversation quickly leads to a physical altercation. When it’s time for the committee to vote, Maxwell makes another plea on Stuart’s behalf, but Coe -– the most hated man on campus -– is savoring his chance to crush the young professor’s hopes. When he bites into an orange, he suddenly drops to the floor. He’s dead. Camille, the acting dean, is eager to have Coe’s death dismissed as a heart attack, but Jonathan isn’t so sure. He tells Mike Parker, a private detective and family friend, his suspicions. Unfortunately, he speaks his mind while an eager newspaper reporter, Kelly Fogelle, is within earshot. The next day, a newspaper headline screams that Dr. Maxwell thinks it was murder, which lands him in hot water with the dean. However, when his lab test on the orange reveals poison, Maxwell was proven right - it was murder. Given that Coe’s taste for oranges was known to all, it logically follows that the poisoned fruit was specifically meant for the nasty professor. But there’s a new problem: Police find the syringe used to poison the orange in Stuart’s home. Stuart Evans is arrested and charged with Coe’s murder! Since Maxwell is convinced that Stuart is innocent, he launches an unofficial investigation, hiring Mike to help clear the young professor. Despite Maxwell’s protests, reporter Kelly Fogelle decides to help too, although she mostly just gets in the way. Maxwell and Mike methodically assemble a list of others who had motive and/or opportunity to kill Coe. The roster includes Danya, Valentin Rosovitch, Muriel Coe and Camille Brewster, although Mike eventually rules out Danya after a motorist tries to run her down on campus. Maxwell and Mike also discover that Coe was being blackmailed for his affair with Danya and hear tantalizing rumors that Coe was writing a new novel certain to be a bestseller. As the investigation continues, Maxwell discovers that the book isn’t mere rumor. Danya claims to have read parts of it, but the lone copy of the manuscript is nowhere to be found. Maxwell becomes convinced that this missing manuscript is the key to the murder. Then a solution occurs to Maxwell: Although many people had motives to kill Coe, the vile man was poisoned by someone wanting to take possession of his secret book. Who would kill to achieve literary glory? So Maxwell sends Mike on a late-night mission of breaking and entering, and Mike recovers the manuscript in Hilda Lake’s office. They decide to set a trap for Hilda. She believes that Danya, the only other person who knew of the book’s existence, stole it. So when knife-wielding Hilda attempts to silence Danya by killing her, Maxwell and Mike are there to stop her. Another mystery solved and a framed man freed! -- HALLMARK CHANNEL --
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