The Wyndham Case
- Author Jill Paton Walsh
- Narrator Suzannah Hampton
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Run Time 6 hours and 54 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
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
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 -
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
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