The Wyndham Case
A Locked Room Murder Mystery set in Cambridge
$33.32
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
12 October 2006
Summary
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 dou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340839492 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 034083949X |
| Author: | Jill Paton Walsh |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 12 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Imogen Quy Mysteries |
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Paton Walsh plots deftly and writes intelligently … Sayers’ many fans will be delighted.– Andrew Taylor, Independent
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 ExpressIn Imogen Quy, the author has created an admirable detective heroine, as unabashed as she is unaffected. - Times Literary SupplementPaton Walsh plots deftly and writes intelligently … Sayers’ many fans will be delighted. - Andrew Taylor, IndependentJill 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 NewsAbout The Author
Jill Paton Walsh
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.
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