The Wyndham Case by Jill Paton Walsh

The Wyndham Case by Jill Paton Walsh

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Booker-shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh introduces us to Imogen Quy, a Cambridge college nurse - and detective.

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The Wyndham Case by Jill Paton Walsh

'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. And before long, another student is found, drowned in an ornamental fountain . . .
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 *
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 9780340839492
ISBN 10 034083949X
Title The Wyndham Case
Author Jill Paton Walsh
Series Imogen Quy Mysteries
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Year published 2006-09-21
Number of pages 224
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