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

Booker-shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh introduces us to Imogen Quy, a Cambridge college nurse - and detective. The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled collection of seventeenth-century volumes. And one dead student . . .Tragic and accidental of course, even if malicious gossip hints that Philip Skelly was stealing books rather than reading them when he slipped, banged his head and bled to death overnight.Only the college nurse, Imogen Quy, has her doubts: after all, her name rhymes with 'why'. And no one takes much notice until the second dead student appears in the college fountain.'In Imogen Quy the author has created an admirable detective heroine.' The Times Literary SupplementHave you read the other Imogen Quy novels? The Bad Quarto, Debts of Dishonour and A Piece of Justice are all Hodder paperbacks.Fiction: CrimeHodderISBN 978 0 340 83920 1 'A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived' ObserverAccording to certain Cambridge scholars, the locked library of St Agatha's College is home to an unrivalled - and deeply uninteresting - collection of seventeenth century volumes. It also contains one dead student.At first glance it seems like a tragic accident - even if malicious rumours suggest that Philip Skellow had been 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. And before long, another student is found, drowned in an ornamental fountain . . .