'A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived' Observer

According 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 . . .

Booker shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh introduces us to popular detective Imogen Quy

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 *
An entertaining and stimulating crime novel * Manchester Evening News *



Book Information
ISBN 9780340839492
Author Jill Paton Walsh
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Hodder Paperback
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Weight(grams) 180g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm * 15mm