Professor Darling

This is a romantic suspense novel involving a prestigious but shy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who rescued a woman from a fatal car crash on the rugged Coast Highway north of San Francisco. It was later revealed that the woman was a famous sexy Hollywood movie star who then wants to “use” the professor to provide her with prestige, respectability, and additional publicity. Despite the beauty and sexy fame of the starlet, however, the professor does not want to become romantically involved with her and feels that she will ruin his reputation and career. Instead, he has a romantic relationship with another woman. His love affair with the latter, however, is complicated by the efforts of the starlet to ensnarl him. The whole affair ends with a murder, with the professor being considered the prime suspect.