'An entertaining read' - Sunday Times

Why did Sir Julius Farran die?

Hoping to attract a generous endowment, St Agatha's College, Cambridge, invites the fabulously wealthy Sir Julius Farran to dine. The evening is a disaster for everyone except the college nurse, Imogen Quy, who Farran invites her to come and work for him.

Imogen declines, but when Farran dies, suddenly and shockingly, she has to investigate. His death has left a large hole in his company accounts that could mean financial ruin for St Agatha's. To save her beloved college, Imogen starts to cast her cool eye over the financier's heirs, employees and enemies.

What is right about the death of Sir Julius? What is wrong about it? And above all, why did it happen?

Imogen Quy returns after a decade to solve another intriguing Cambridge 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
An entertaining read * Sunday Times *
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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780340839201
Author Jill Paton Walsh
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Hodder Paperback
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Weight(grams) 196g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 131mm * 19mm