Killing Mr. Griffin is a 1978 suspense novel by Lois Duncan about a group of teenaged students at a New Mexico high school, who plan to kidnap their strict English teacher, Mr. Griffin. Duncan developed the story from the character of Mark, who is involved in the kidnapping plan and is based on the first boyfriend of Duncan's oldest daughter.

It turns out that the ring is with David, who accidentally shows it to his grandmother, who then insist on taking it from him. After they reveal this to Mark, David’s grandmother is found murdered. David and Betsy connect the dots that Mark was the one who killed her.

By analyzing the Killing Mr Griffin characters, students will better understand motivation and be able to grasp at the tangled web of choices a writer must make for their characters in order to write a suspenseful, intriguing novel.

Griffin’s outrageously difficult grading is Dave’s only hurdle in getting a scholarship for Albuquerque students trying to get into the University of New Mexico. When Mark stops by Dave’s house to tell him about the plan to scare and threaten Mr. Griffin, Dave agrees to be a part of it.

Killing Mr. Griffin is a 1997 American television film directed by Jack Bender and starring Jay Thomas, Scott Bairstow, Mario Lopez, and Amy Jo Johnson. The film is based on Killing Mr. Griffin, a 1978 novel by Lois Duncan.

When Susan and Dave find Mr. Griffin again, he is dead. The teenagers dig a hole and bury Mr. Griffin. In the aftermath of Mr. Griffin’s disappearance, Susan and Dave experience deep guilt, but Mark convinces them all to believe that they didn’t do anything wrong.

Jan 1, 2001 · In 1989 the youngest of Duncan's children, Kaitlyn Arquette, was murdered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, under suspicious circumstances. Who Killed My Daughter? relates the facts and conjecture about the still unsolved case.

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The police investigate, and find Mr. Griffin's body buried in the hole. Brian Griffin's murder is all over the news. David’s grandmother finds Mr. Griffin's ring that David stole, but believes it belongs to David's father, and that David has been secretly meeting with his father.