A Piece of Justice by Jill Paton Walsh
'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth' - Sunday Express What is the Summerfield secret? Biography is usually a safe profession. But more than one biographer has found that writing about the late mathematician Gideon Summerfield has nasty consequences. Consequences that can sometimes be deadly. Imogen Quy, the coolly competent nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge, first notices the pattern when her enthusiastic lodger Fran becomes the latest Summerfield biographer. Before she realises how deadly the Summerfield secret is, Fran's life is in danger. And Imogen may be next . . .
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 * Times Literary Supplement *
Jill 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 News *
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 * Times Literary Supplement *
Jill 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 News *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780340839508 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340839503 |
| Title | A Piece of Justice |
| Author | Jill Paton Walsh |
| Series | Imogen Quy Mysteries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2006-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for CWA Gold Dagger 1985 (UK), Short-listed for CWA Gold Dagger 1985 (UK) |
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