TY - SER KW - writers KW - private investigators AU - Randall Silvis AB - After 20 years of snooping on cheating spouses, private investigator Ernest DeWalt begins teaching literature courses at a small college in Menona, a fictitious Monongahela Valley town. When a colleague is killed in the throes of an affair, the widow convinces Ernest to investigate. C1 - 1990s C3 - Monongahela River C4 - Mystery; Detective; Campus CY - Sag Harbor, NY LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - After 20 years of snooping on cheating spouses, private investigator Ernest DeWalt begins teaching literature courses at a small college in Menona, a fictitious Monongahela Valley town. When a colleague is killed in the throes of an affair, the widow convinces Ernest to investigate. PB - The Permanent Press PP - Sag Harbor, NY PY - 1993 RN - Randall Silvis (1950— ), born in Madison Twp., Clarion County and educated at Clarion University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, is a novelist and playwright. He won the 1984 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Short Fiction. EP - 256 p. TI - An Occasional Hell ER -