00973cam a2200253 4500 53086768 TxAuBib 20090903120000.0 081219s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008054585 9780805087734 $26.00 0805087737 $26.00 (OCoLC)431902999 DLC DLC NjBwBT TxAuBib Patterson, Richard North. The spire : a novel / Richard North Patterson. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2009. 371 p. ; 25 cm. When a mentor who enabled his education and career entreats him to accept the presidency of his alma mater amid an embezzlement scandal, trial lawyer Mark Darrow remembers his discovery of a murdered girl sixteen years earlier that resulted in a classmate's conviction. 20090903. Mystery fiction. MRLJG