The Wyndham Case: A Locked Room Murder Mystery set in Cambridge
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By Jill Paton Walsh, and and, Suzannah Hampton
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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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A readable whodunnit with a fantastic Cambridge setting, bought this at the end of the Crime Detective Fiction exhibition at Cambridge University Library. Might search out more Imogen Quy mysteries, there is also a good adaptation as a play on BBC Sounds, Radio 4. Not a children's book but would work well for older readers, sixth form who enjoy crime fiction
