They gathered in the library, the place where it had happened. Last Friday, Tony Pagliano, the gym teacher at St. Ann’s Elementary, had been found dead among the dusty volumes in the very room where they now sat fidgeting.
In The Confession, a phys ed teacher at an elementary school has been murdered. The suspects have been gathered, and one teacher takes a gambit to elicit a confession.
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The Poisoned Martini 
“Her indignant demeanor suggested that she thought anything else would be utter poppycock” is a sentence that makes me happy. (but what’s the guy who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem doing solving crimes in Syracuse?)
But Andrew Wiles didn’t solve the crime, at least not this particular one.