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A Piece of Justice

CWA Gold Dagger, 1985

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340839508

Price: £9.99

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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 . . .

Reviews

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