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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.
<b>Formidable talent</b> . . . not so much Reservoir Dogs, more <b>agony aunt with the mind of Morse</b>
Sunday Express
Jill Paton Walsh has created <b>a Miss Marple for the 21st century</b>
Mirror
This is <b>a satisfyingly convoluted tale</b>, involving a family tragedy that took place many years before, as well as some <b>ingenious</b> sleuthing on the part of Imogen.
The Times
A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . <b>Ms. Morse has arrived</b>
Observer
Imogen Quy <b>positively sparkles on the page</b> as an amateur sleuth
Sunday Express
Paton Walsh<b> plots deftly and writes intelligently </b>
Independent
In Imogen Quy, <b>the author has created an admirable detective heroine</b>, 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 <b>an entertaining and stimulating crime novel</b>
Manchester Evening News
'Jill Paton Walsh has created a Miss Marple for the 21st century' - Mirror
'A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived' - Observer
Another foolhardy Cambridge college night climber has died attempting Harding's Folly. This time it's John Talentire, one of the brightest young dons at St Agatha's, and the verdict is accident, compounded by idiocy.
But college nurse Imogen Quy can't help wondering how such a clever young man died so stupidly.
And when a wildly eccentric production of Hamlet is interrupted by a murder accusation, Imogen investigates, uncovering more crime than she expected . . .
St Agatha's College looks like a haven of mediaeval tranquility. But Cambridge colleges are full of secrets . . .
A daredevil lecturer with a brilliant future falls to his death - an accident?
An angry scholarship student with a tragic past disappears - intentionally?
And how is either event connected to an amateur production of an obscure version of Hamlet?
Imogen Quy, whose name rhymes with 'why', is the cleverest college nurse in Cambridge. She unpicks a tangled tale of long-forgotten tragedy with murderous consequences many years later.
'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth. Sunday Express
'Precisely plotted, and the characters, especially the calm and perceptive Imogen, are convincing.' Sunday Times
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Have you read the other Imogen Quy novels? The Wyndham Case, Debts of Dishonour and A Piece of Justice are all Hodder paperbacks.
Hodder
Fiction: Crime
ISBN 978 0 340 83922 5
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
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.