The Wyndham Case: A Locked Room Murder Mystery set in Cambridge

Jill Paton Walsh

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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery

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Hodder Paperbacks
- Paperback Oct 12, 2006 | 9780340839492 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Oct 12, 2006 | 9780340839492 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 29, 2019 | 9781529361292 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Nov 24, 2011 | 9781444732917 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Oct 12, 2006 | 9780340839492 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 29, 2019 | 9781529361292 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Nov 24, 2011 | 9781444732917 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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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...

Praise for The Wyndham Case: A Locked Room Murder Mystery set in Cambridge

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
In Imogen Quy, the author has created an admirable detective heroine, as unabashed as she is unaffected. - Times Literary Supplement
Paton Walsh plots deftly and writes intelligently . . . Sayers' many fans will be delighted. - Andrew Taylor, Independent
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

Jill Paton Walsh

Born in 1937, Jill Paton Walsh was an award-winning British novelist and children's writer. Her adult novels include Knowledge of Angels, which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, and the Imogen Quy Mysteries. She also completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane series.

In 1996, she received the CBE for services to literature. She died in 2020.