Cruel Games : A Brilliant Professor, a Loving Mother, a Brutal Murder

English

ISBN: 0312947038

EAN: 9780312947033

Category: Education / Higher/Family & Relationships / Abuse / General/Family & Relationships / Abuse / Domestic Partner Abuse/Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General/True Crime / Murder / General/

Publisher: St. Martins Press

Release Date: 02/03/2009

Synopsis: University of Pennsylvania professor Rafael Robb was in a class of his own. An expert on game theory, his colleagues and students marveled over his brilliance. But his wife, Ellen, knew his dark, calculating side...and in December 2006, after years of alleged psychological abuse, she was finally ready to leave him. Her divorce papers were nearly in order and she was about to sign a lease on a new homeand a new life. Until she was found dead in the home she shared with Rafael and their daughter, Olivia.Rafael claimed that Ellen was the victim of a fatal intrusion. Many of Ellens friends and family suspected that Rafael committed the crime. Now, a high-stakes showdown was about to begin between local investigators and one of academic worlds greatest masterminds. But the police had almost no evidenceand the professor had only one strategy: to win at all costs...

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Cruel Games : A Brilliant Professor, a Loving Mother, a Brutal Murder

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.79 inches

Width: 4.27 inches

Length: 6.67 inches

Weight: 3.53 oz

Pages: 288