Trail of the Dragon — Susan Kelly

A MISSING TEACHER SENDS SCANDAL TO SCHOOL

Liz Connors can't say exactly why she's gotten herself mixed up in a search for a missing person. But when her former employer Carl DiBenedetto, head of the English Department of a Boston-area college, asks for her help; she can't say no. He's desperate for Liz to find Bonnie Nordgren, a beautiful young teacher who dropped out of sight--still toting the thirty-five hundred dollars she borrowed from Carl.

On a lark, Liz checking around. And with the professional advice of her very special friend, Detective Lieutenant Jack Lingemann, she cleverly follows a smoky road of deceit that leads straight to Bonnie's front door, for an illicit education that requires no advanced degree...