The Professor's Assassin (edit title/settings)

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• William Barton Rogers: Prof at Virginia, who tries to solve a murder.
• Gessner Harrison: Interim Chair of faculity.
• George Tucker: The professor of moral philosophy.
• John Davis: The faculty chairman.
• James Cabell: professor of surgery.
• Henry Howard: medical department
• James Cabel: colleague in the medical department
• Jack Cottrell: Young slave very bright
• Sally Cottrell: Jack’s mother
• Robert Dabney: 2nd year student at U of V
• Sheriff Helms: Local sheriff
• Mary Jane Davis: Wife of Prof. Davis, Grandniece of Thomas Jefferson, she was a quiet, petite woman with a narrow, almost severe face but gentle eyes not unlike her husband’s.
• Joseph Semmes: Senior and leader of student riots.

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• ““I am going to find out who shot Professor Davis, and bring him to the Albemarle County sheriff before he departs Charlottesville for other business in Scottsville.” Prof Rogers.”

• “That is Sally Cottrell in your anteroom?” The sheriff shrugged. “She’s one of the Davis slaves.” Prof Rogers.”

• “'There is this poem, too, which he has dog-eared and marked. It is called ‘A Night Scene Among the Mountains.’”

• “In the coming years, as chairman of the University of Virginia, he would often remember that crisp November day when Tucker first urged him in that direction. Rogers.”

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Matthew Pearl (Author)

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