Emily Dickinson Is Dead

The Belle of Amherst is losing her fans one by one....

The guests at the Emily Dickinson Memorial symposium are all passionately devoted to the poet Professor Peter Wiggins is eager to revitalize her image (and his own career) by exposing a verb controversial photograph. Winifred Gaw, an obese graduate student, feels compelled to make public the special bond she shares with Emily Dickinson--the awful pain of unrequited love. And ever Professor Tom Perry's new girlfriend, pretty Alison Groves, finds that her indifference to poetry undergoes a subtle change when she's selected to wear Dickinson's famous white dress.

Soon academic and romantic rivalries begin to intrude on the cultured atmosphere, and the ardent tributes to Dickinson's memory are ruder interrupted by arson, forgery...and murder.