Description
'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth' - Sunday Express
What is the Summerfield secret?
Biography is usually a safe profession. But more than one biographer has found that writing about the late mathematician Gideon Summerfield has nasty consequences. Consequences that can sometimes be deadly.
Imogen Quy, the coolly competent nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge, first notices the pattern when her enthusiastic lodger Fran becomes the latest Summerfield biographer. Before she realises how deadly the Summerfield secret is, Fran's life is in danger. And Imogen may be next . . .
Booker shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh returns with the second Imogen Quy mystery
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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 *
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 *
Awards
Short-listed for CWA Gold Dagger 1985 (UK) and CWA Gold Dagger 1985 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9780340839508
Author Jill Paton Walsh
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Hodder Paperback
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Weight(grams) 202g
Dimensions(mm) 202mm * 141mm * 16mm
