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The Wyndham Case: A Locked Room Murder Mystery set in Cambridge
Jill Paton Walsh
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Description for The Wyndham Case: A Locked Room Murder Mystery set in Cambridge
Paperback. Booker shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh introduces us to popular detective Imogen Quy Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
'A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived' Observer
According to certain Cambridge scholars, the locked library of St Agatha's College is home to an unrivalled - and deeply uninteresting - collection of seventeenth century volumes.
It also contains one dead student.
At first glance it seems like a tragic accident - even if malicious rumours suggest that Philip Skellow had been 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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340839492
SKU
KAC0000492
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Ref
99-1
About Jill Paton Walsh
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Wyndham Case: A Locked Room Murder Mystery set in Cambridge
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
Paton Walsh plots deftly and writes intelligently
Independent
In Imogen Quy, the author has created an admirable detective heroine, as unabashed as she is unaffected ... Read more
Observer
Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth
Sunday Express
Paton Walsh plots deftly and writes intelligently
Independent
In Imogen Quy, the author has created an admirable detective heroine, as unabashed as she is unaffected ... Read more