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The Wyndham Case

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340839492

Price: £9.99

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‘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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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