Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay
For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon, only to find the drowned body of the college bursar floating in her canoe. The police assume that a student prank got out of hand, but the resourceful Persephone girls suspect foul play, and take the investigation into their own hands. Soon they uncover the tangled secrets that led to the bursar's death - and the clues that point to a fellow student. This classic mystery novel, with its evocative setting in an Oxford women's college, is now republished for the first time since the 1930s.
Mavis Doriel Hay (1894 - 1979) was a novelist of the golden age of British crime fiction. Her three detective novels were published in the 1930s and are now very rare. The British Library republished The Santa Klaus Murder in 2013.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780712357265 |
| ISBN 10 | 0712357262 |
| Title | Death on the Cherwell |
| Author | Mavis Doriel Hay |
| Series | British Library Crime Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | British Library Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-04-04 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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