Murder in the Museum of Man

As I mentioned a few weeks ago this book by Alfred Alcorn caught my eye whilst I was shelving and now I've managed to read it. I went into work yesterday and bought the second one.

Norman de Ratour is a tall prissy academic (think Niles Crane) working at the Museum of Man which is being threatened with takeover by Wainscott University. As we join him he's contemplating the disappearance of the Dean, thinking of writing a history of the museum and preoccupied with the woman that he let get away. Then the Dean's remains turn up and Norman decides that rather than be regarded under the same pall of suspicion as his esteemed colleagues he should find out who killed the Dean and served him with pesto. Some things are rotten in academia including mad chimpanzee research, dubious funding, strange goings on at the genetics lab and a rumoured 'cult' of cannibals some of whom may still be on campus. Then the replacement Dean vanishes...