The Map Room Murder: A Doctor Trevor Rennick Story

Located in Rochester, New York, Longthorpe University is a popular college choice all across The United States, if not quite among the nation's most prestigious. The Institute of Arts and Sciences stands among it's least noteworthy facilities, despite the large number of classes held there. It's in this building that young (by the standards of college professors, at any rate) professor of European history, Doctor Trevor Rennick teaches. Tragedy strikes, however, when professor of geography and cartography Nathan James is murdered in the so-called "map room", a small room set aside as a gallery of his cartography students' best work. Driven by curiosity, and a bit of annoyance at the local police's lackluster handling of the situation, Doctor Rennick, with the help of one of his students, launches an amateur investigation of his own.

The first book in the Institute of Arts and Sciences series, with any luck. An orthodox mystery, compliant with Knox's Decalogue, which can be found here: http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv186.html