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unpretentious. I considered her attractive, and I assumed many of her male colleagues and students had felt the same way. Maybe one of them decided she'd been a little too demanding. Although her body had been found in Kansas, the location of the actual murder was not known. The lead investigator for the Lincoln Police Department, Detective Amanda Slowiaczek, told reporters Carolyn could have been killed anyplace between Lin- coln and the site where her body had been found, approximately eighty miles south of there. Neither her department nor the sher- iff in Kansas had any suspects. The third victim, if you could call him that, had been a thirty- seven-year-old associate professor of mathematics at Harvard. Donald Underwood had hanged himself in his upscale Boston town house on Valentine's Day. He and his wife had been sepa- rated ten months, but friends and coworkers had noticed nothing unusual in his behavior in the weeks prior to his death. There was no mention of a suicide note. Because the authorities had treated his death as a suicide rather than a murder, the local papers had not seen fit to devote more than a few paragraphs to the story. All I knew was that he was survived by his wife and two sons. Three victims, three different states, and three different causes of death. That all added up to three unrelated cases, but all three victims had been mathematicians. And not just run-of-the-mill mathematicians, but experts in fractal geometry. The feds had closed the case, but I had a tough time chalking it up to coinci- dence. Another thing I had a tough time with was the paper my client had written. It was entitled "Fractal Dimension: Some Thoughts on Alternatives to Hausdorff-Besicovitch." She lost me in the second paragraph, and after that it might as well have been writ- ten using an alphabet created by an ancient civilization from another planet in a solar system that had long since imploded. After twenty minutes of struggling with it, all I knew was that no