The Wyndham Case: A Locked Room Murder Mystery set in Cambridge (Imogen Quy Mysteries)

The Wyndham Case: A Locked Room Murder Mystery set in Cambridge (Imogen Quy Mysteries)

by JillPatonWalsh (Author)

Synopsis

The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, deeply uninteresting collection of seventeenth century volumes.

It also contains one dead student.

Tragic and accidental, of course, even if malicious gossip hints that Philip Skellow had been engaged in stealing books rather than acquiring knowledge when he'd slipped, banged his head, and bled to death overnight.

Only Imogen Quy, the college nurse, has her doubts - until another student is found, drowned in an ornamental fountain...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 21 Sep 2006

ISBN 10: 034083949X
ISBN 13: 9780340839492
Book Overview: Booker shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh introduces us to popular detective Imogen Quy

Media Reviews
A jewel in the traditional English detective mode... Ms. Morse has arrived * Observer *
Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth. * Sunday Express *
In Imogen Quy, the author has created an admirable detective heroine, as unabashed as she is unaffected. * Times Literary Supplement *
Paton Walsh plots deftly and writes intelligently . . . Sayers' many fans will be delighted. * Andrew Taylor, Independent *
Jill Paton Walsh demonstrates that the traditional ingredients of the woman sleuth, the academic background and a clever puzzle are still capable of being arranged into an entertaining and stimulating crime novel. * Manchester Evening News *
Author Bio
Jill Paton Walsh, born in 1937, is also the author of many non-crime novels for adults: the fourth of these, Knowledge of Angels, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Before writing for adults she made a career as a writer of children's books and has won many literary prizes.