cover image One Fell Sloop

One Fell Sloop

Susan Kenney. Penguin Books, $5.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-14-015406-1

Literature professor Roz Howard and her arrogant Scottish lover, Alan Stewart, try to put their quarreling on hold after they discover an environmentalist's corpse on an uninhabited island off the Maine coast. According to PW , the ``oft-becalmed plot . . . like Roz's putative feminist inclinations, moves sluggishly.'' (Dec.)