THE SATURDAY MORNING MURDER
by Batya Gur
Who shot eminent Jerusalem psychiatrist Eva Neidorf just before she was to deliver a Saturday morning lecture on ``Some Aspects of the Ethical and Forensic Problems Involved in Analytic Treatment''? Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon (a Moroccan former history student forced from the doctoral program at Cambridge into a marriage now ended in divorce) finds suspicion divided equally between Dr. Neidorf's colleagues—revered Ernst Hildesheimer; embittered Joe Linder; haughtily beautiful Dina Silver; conscientious young Shlomo Gold—and the mysterious patient who purloined her lecture notes, weekly schedule, and income-tax returns in order to conceal his (or her) existence. Mildly interesting psychiatric characters and background wrapped up in a ceremonious manner. Two sequels, already published in Israel, are bound to follow.