Edith Skom

Edith Mary Skom (née Rosen; August 8, 1929 – February 3, 2016) was the author of three detective novels with a nineteenth-century literature theme, published between 1989 and 1998. The books feature amateur sleuth Professor Beth Austen, and take place at the fictional "Midwestern University."^[1][2]

Edith Skom was a Distinguished Senior Lecturer Emeritus in The Writing Program at Northwestern University.^[3]

Books

• The Mark Twain Murders, 1989 (nominated for an Agatha, an Anthony and a Macavity Award)
• The George Eliot Murders, 1995
• The Charles Dickens Murders, 1998

References

1. "Northwestern Writing Professor Edith Rosen Skom Dies: Northwestern University News".
2. "Edith Skom Obituary - Skokie, IL - Chicago Tribune". Chicago Tribune.
3. http://www.writingprogram.northwestern.edu/people/skom.html