abington college, very small, antique, once women-only new england college, is venerable and broke, hires a butch jewish phd from brooklyn to salvage what can be in the face of crashing enrollment and desperate need to retain full paid tuition students despite their academic deficiencies. add to this crisis management, amanda hyde (with jekyll as foreground), english, former au pair girl employed by a new york mafia family, now head of the abington college alumni fund, a picaresque rise from au pair to stripper at the kit kat club in manhattan and by means of forged documentation to eligibility for her current position, aided in her financial and professional success by a hit man and a plague of fatal accidents among the alumni. all part of the larcenous tale you are about to read if you are lucky enough to get a copy of this book.