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The Wyndham Case
Imogen Quy Mysteries (Related to this series)
- Author
- Jill Paton Walsh
- Narrator
- Suzannah Hampton
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 29 August 2019
- Run Time
- 6 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, deeply uninteresting collection of seventeenth century volumes.
It also contains one dead student.
Tragic and accidental, of course, even if malicious gossip hints that Philip Skellow had been engaged in 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 - until another student is found, drowned in an ornamental fountain...
(P) 2019 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Critics Review
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A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived
Observer
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Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth
Sunday Express
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Paton Walsh plots deftly and writes intelligently
Independent
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In Imogen Quy, the author has created an admirable detective heroine, as unabashed as she is unaffected
Times LIterary Supplement
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An entertaining and stimulating crime novel
Manchester Evening News
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Details
- Author
- Jill Paton Walsh
- Narrator
- Suzannah Hampton
- Duration
- 6 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 August 2019
- ISBN
- 9781529361292
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Crime and / or mystery fiction
Synopsis
Booker shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh introduces us to popular detective Imogen Quy.The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, deeply uninteresting collection of seventeenth century volumes.It also contains one dead student.Tragic and accidental, of course, even if malicious gossip hints that Philip Skellow had been engaged in 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 - until another student is found, drowned in an ornamental fountain...(P) 2019 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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