Poison and Potsherds (Magnolia Henley mystery series) (Volume 2)

Professor Phillip Donamacia, famous art historian specializing in Greek antiquities, womanizer and campus bon-vivant . . . is dead. Poisoned. Blame for his shocking murder quickly fastens upon Constance, a German graduate student and Magnolia Henley's good friend and neighbor. Alarmed at her comrade's plight, the case is more than academic for Magnolia, and quickly entangles her in a web of intrigue involving the disappearance of a number of ancient artifacts from the university museum for which Donamacia served as curator. Magnolia soon finds herself in mortal danger at the center of an ancient mystery whose priceless relics are motive for mayhem and murder.