Jill Paton Walsh
Debts of Dishonour
A Riveting Mystery set in Cambridge
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Hoping to attract a generous endowment, St Agatha's College, Cambridge invites fabulously wealthy Sir Julius Farran to dine. The evening is a disaster for everyone but Imogen Quy, the college nurse: Farran invites her to come and work for him. She declines, but when Farran dies, suddenly and shockingly, she has to look into it. His death left a large hole in his company accounts that could mean financial ruin for St Agatha's. To save her college, Imogen starts to cast her cool eye over the financier's heirs, employees and enemies. What is right about the death of Sir Julius? What is wrong about it? And why did it happen? After all, h…
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Hoping to attract a generous endowment, St Agatha's College, Cambridge invites fabulously wealthy Sir Julius Farran to dine. The evening is a disaster for everyone but Imogen Quy, the college nurse: Farran invites her to come and work for him. She declines, but when Farran dies, suddenly and shockingly, she has to look into it. His death left a large hole in his company accounts that could mean financial ruin for St Agatha's. To save her college, Imogen starts to cast her cool eye over the financier's heirs, employees and enemies. What is right about the death of Sir Julius? What is wrong about it? And why did it happen? After all, her name rhymes with why.'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth. Sunday Express'In Imogen Quy the author has created an admirable detective heroine.' The Times Literary SupplementHave you read the other Imogen Quy novels? The Bad Quarto, The Wyndham Case and A Piece of Justice are all Hodder paperbacks.Fiction: CrimeHodderISBN 978 0 340 83920 1
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-340-83920-1
- EAN: 9780340839201
- Produktnummer: 18582834
- Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.8 cm 200 g
- Abbildungen: none
- Gewicht: 200
- 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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