Jill Paton Walsh

The Wyndham Case (eBook, ePUB)

A Locked Room Murder Mystery set in Cambridge

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'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 . . .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444732917
• Artikelnr.: 39223426

Autorenporträt

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.