CHAPTER 10Paige's research found nothing extraordinary in either Professor Joseph Hardy's professional or personal life. He was an academic who seemingly spent his whole adult life involved in academic research and teaching, rising to his present position as a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Auckland University. At his present age of sixty-one, he had never been married and there were no records of him having any s****l relationships, heterosexual or homosexual with students or other staff members.
Information about his life outside the universities was sparse but comments about his interpersonal relationships within the university showed that a trend of aloofness and intolerance bordering onto arrogance had become more pronounced. This had gone against him when he had a
