Jill Paton Walsh
The Wyndham Case
A Locked Room Murder Mystery set in Cambridge
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The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled collection of seventeenth-century volumes. And one dead student . . .Tragic and accidental of course, even if malicious gossip hints that Philip Skelly was stealing books rather than reading them when he slipped, banged his head and bled to death overnight.Only the college nurse, Imogen Quy, has her doubts: after all, her name rhymes with 'why'. And no one takes much notice until the second dead student appears in the college fountain.'In Imogen Quy the author has created an admirable detective heroine.' The Times Literary SupplementHave you read the other Imogen Quy…
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The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled collection of seventeenth-century volumes. And one dead student . . .Tragic and accidental of course, even if malicious gossip hints that Philip Skelly was stealing books rather than reading them when he slipped, banged his head and bled to death overnight.Only the college nurse, Imogen Quy, has her doubts: after all, her name rhymes with 'why'. And no one takes much notice until the second dead student appears in the college fountain.'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, Debts of Dishonour and A Piece of Justice are all Hodder paperbacks.Fiction: CrimeHodderISBN 978 0 340 83920 1
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-340-83949-2
- EAN: 9780340839492
- Produktnummer: 2387944
- Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.6 cm 153 g
- Abbildungen: None
- Gewicht: 153
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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