A Voss and Pike Casefile: The First Case
Section 21: Professor Marguerite Ashby
The Vice-Chancellor's office occupied the university's grandest building, oil paintings of previous VCs watching you with varying degrees of institutional disapproval. Ashby didn't rise.
"Desmond Hume was, by some distance, this department's finest academic," she said. "He was also about to stand up in public and describe one of this university's most lucrative research partnerships as a betrayal of everything sociology claims to stand for. I won't pretend that prospect didn't alarm me considerably."