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Book Review of Killing Mr. Griffin

Killing Mr. Griffin
Killing Mr. Griffin
Author: Lois Duncan
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


This will appeal to teens - when I read it in 9th grade I loved it. A tough-but-"good" English teacher upsets his class just a bit too much and some of them decide to kidnap him to teach him a lesson. Unfortunately, he has a weak heart and they end up killing him instead. The rest of the story revolves around Mrs Griffin trying to get to the bottom of it, and she knows that one of the students had something to do with it...the "good girl" and teachers pet who got sucked into the plot not knowing how it was going to turn out.

Adults reading this after years of reading crime/mystery novels will see that the plot is "way out there" and a bit silly but it's a fun campy read anyway...