Piper loves teaching at the local university. The word "professor" calls up imagines of a well respected, book reading, person with accolades for their expertise and a huge salary. Yeah, right! Piper's title? Adjunct faculty, the overworked and underpaid workhorses of every university. When the chair of her department sends a text message saying, "Urgent. Come now. We have a crisis." Dressed in her gardening clothes with dirt under her fingernails, she rushes to the university. Piper inadvertently flings herself into the middle of a devastating, gut wrenching crime. Armed with her off beat humor and her secret private eye side hustle, she rushes in to calm Professor Craine and prays to every deity she can think of to keep her out of prison. Will she succeed? Only the deities know for sure. Don't miss this this sometime snarky and sometimes tender Adjunct Private Investigators short story

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