Jill Paton Walsh
The Bad Quarto
A Gripping Cambridge Murder Mystery
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St Agatha's College looks like a haven of mediaeval tranquility. But Cambridge colleges are full of secrets . . .A daredevil lecturer with a brilliant future falls to his death - an accident?An angry scholarship student with a tragic past disappears - intentionally?And how is either event connected to an amateur production of an obscure version of Hamlet? Imogen Quy, whose name rhymes with 'why', is the cleverest college nurse in Cambridge. She unpicks a tangled tale of long-forgotten tragedy with murderous consequences many years later.'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth. Sunday Express'Precisely plotted, and…
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St Agatha's College looks like a haven of mediaeval tranquility. But Cambridge colleges are full of secrets . . .A daredevil lecturer with a brilliant future falls to his death - an accident?An angry scholarship student with a tragic past disappears - intentionally?And how is either event connected to an amateur production of an obscure version of Hamlet? Imogen Quy, whose name rhymes with 'why', is the cleverest college nurse in Cambridge. She unpicks a tangled tale of long-forgotten tragedy with murderous consequences many years later.'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth. Sunday Express'Precisely plotted, and the characters, especially the calm and perceptive Imogen, are convincing.' Sunday Times[set this part very small.]Have you read the other Imogen Quy novels? The Wyndham Case, Debts of Dishonour and A Piece of Justice are all Hodder paperbacks.Hodder Fiction: CrimeISBN 978 0 340 83922 5
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-340-83922-5
- EAN: 9780340839225
- Produktnummer: 17612116
- Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.9 cm x D2.0 cm 210 g
- Abbildungen: None
- Gewicht: 210
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Born in 1937, Jill Paton Walsh was an award-winning British novelist and children's writer. Her adult novels include Knowledge of Angels, which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, and the Imogen Quy Mysteries. She also completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane series.In 1996, she received the CBE for services to literature. She died in 2020.
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