Affair

An academic is accused of fraud in this novel set in 1950s England by “an extremely shrewd observer of men and society” (Commentary).

At Lewis Eliot’s Cambridge college, Dr. Donald Howard is not well liked. Some believe his research to be subpar, and his far-left politics off-putting. So no one much mourns when Howard is fired for committing academic fraud. Eliot, though, is disturbed when new inf...